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...
by Paul M | Mar 30, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This case concerned the question whether, on an appeal, a child was entitled to choose and be represented by a solicitor of her own choice, instead of the solicitor already instructed by the court-appointed guardian. At the time of the appeal the child was almost 13...
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...
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