by Alice T | Apr 23, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the March 2019 issue, Family Law [2019] Fam Law 325, and is in response to Louise Tickle’s February article at [2019] Fam Law 122. ‘Fourth Estate’ is a regular column in Family Law by Louise Tickle,...
by Lucy R | Apr 17, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious
Since yesterday the news has been full of reports about a Ukrainian ‘Billionaire, Sergiy Tigipko, investigated over abduction of [his] UK grandchildren’ (See the BBC. Also, for example, Businessman reveals fight to bring daughters back to UK after ex-wife...
by Project Coordinator | Apr 15, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
On the 3rd of April, BBC News published this story on their local news site for Leeds and West Yorkshire. The Metro and Sky News also picked up on the story nationally with the description of a mum who “puts toddler up for adoption”. Both pieces describe...
by Polly Morgan | Apr 11, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation
Giving hope to all concierges who date cosmetics heiresses,* The Times tells us that ‘Concierge who wed Avon heiress wins £1.3 million despite pre-nup deal’. Ipekçi v McConnell is a case between – yes, you’ve guessed it – a hotel concierge,...
by reporting watch team | Apr 6, 2019 | Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
There has been a lot of coverage of remarks apparently made by Mr Justice Hayden this week about the ‘fundamental human right’ of a man to have sex with his wife. We think that the press coverage and twitter interest emanate from a Press Association (PA)...
by Guest Post | Apr 5, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment
This is a guest post by Tom Wright, an associate tutor and PhD candidate in Media Law at University of East Anglia. This post first appeared on Tom’s blog, and we are grateful to him for permission to republish it here. This Supreme Court judgment is on a defamation...
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