by Louise Tickle | Mar 12, 2019 | Cases, Comment
This blog post originally appeared in the February 2019 issue, [2019] Fam Law 122. Whatever you think of the media, journalists’ mistakes couldn’t be more visible. If we get a fact wrong, the evidence is there in black and white. If we write an article...
by reporting watch team | Mar 9, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post from Keri Tayler. Keri is a barrister specialising in Court of Protection work. She tweets as @keri_tayler. Two recent judgments in the Court of Protection sparked the usual inaccurate headlines suggesting that the court had ridden roughshod over...
by reporting watch team | Mar 9, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Re B (A Child) (Post-adoption contact) [2019] EWCA Civ 29 is the first time (since a change in the law in 2014) that the Court of Appeal has considered when an order should be made that an adopted child will have continuing contact with their birth family after he or...
by reporting watch team | Feb 25, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We’ve started trying to write something about Shamima Begum and her baby several times this week, but every time we agree what we are going to write, something changes. It feels a bit like shifting sands, and the facts are very unclear. So we aren’t going...
by Emma Nottingham | Feb 25, 2019 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
What is the law? Last week on Coronation Street, 14-year-old Amy Barlow had an abortion. In line with the current law in England and Wales, she was able to do so without her parents consent. The story caught media attention after twitter users appeared surprised by...
by Paul M | Feb 19, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Divorcing couples who cannot agree how to divide their property can, as an alternative to costly and time consuming litigation, refer the matter to an arbitrator. But if one of them isn’t happy about the outcome, the matter could still end up in court. The recent case...
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