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The Court of Appeal considers Domestic Abuse – Part 2

The Court of Appeal considers Domestic Abuse – Part 2

by Lucy R | Jan 24, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious

This is part 2 of a series of posts about the conjoined appeals. You can read part 1 here. This post summarises the individual issues in the four appeals. Part 3 will cover the wider issues of principle and some of the themes that emerged in the course of the hearing,...
The Court of Appeal considers Domestic Abuse – Part 2

The Court of Appeal considers Domestic Abuse – Part 1

by Lucy R | Jan 23, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious

This week three judges in the Court of Appeal held a 3 day long appeal hearing all about domestic abuse cases. This series of posts provide a summary of what the hearing was about and how it went. The decision is expected in a few weeks time. The appeal was in fact...
Domestic Abuse Appeals – the warm up act?

Domestic Abuse Appeals – the warm up act?

by Lucy R | Jan 18, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Starting tomorrow, the Court of Appeal will consider four conjoined appeals where, it is said, the court’s approach to the handling of allegations of domestic abuse was wrong. There is significant interest in those appeals, and various journalists and reporters...
Pippa Knight – Harm Without Awareness

Pippa Knight – Harm Without Awareness

by reporting watch team | Jan 14, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post from Katie Gollop QC. Katie is a barrister at Serjeants’ Inn Chambers specialising in healthcare related law. She’s also a Deputy High Court Judge allocated to the Family Division and Court of Protection. Alert: this blog about Guy’s and St...
The Court of Appeal considers Domestic Abuse – Part 2

W (Children): judge’s recusal does not indicate bias

by Guest Post | Dec 18, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation

This is a guest post by John Bolch, reproduced with kind permission from his Family Lore blog. Reading the case name W (Children: Reopening/recusal) I assumed that this would be another of those applications by a party, invariably the father, for the recusal of...
Changing a social worker’s statement without her knowledge – E (A Child : Care proceedings : Costs) [2017]

Changing a social worker’s statement without her knowledge – E (A Child : Care proceedings : Costs) [2017]

by Sophie Smith Holland | Dec 14, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

It is very unusual for a judge to make an order in care proceedings requiring a Local Authority to pay the costs incurred by the other parties. It is perhaps even more unusual for a Local Authority to accept that it messed up so badly that such an order against them...
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