Can I object to a legal blogger (or journalist) coming into my hearing?

by reporting watch team | Oct 3, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

Yes. But just because you object doesn’t necessarily mean no journalist or blogger will be allowed in. This post explains what the court rules and other law say about when journalists (or bloggers) may be excluded. If you know wish to object to the attendance of...

Inaugural Legal Blogging Day

by Lucy R | Oct 2, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

Yesterday, 1 October, was the first day of the new legal bloggers pilot. Having spent many hours persuading the powers that be that this was a good idea to try out, it seemed like the done thing to be there on Day One. So, shortly before 10am I trotted from Chambers...

14-year-old instructs his own solicitor in care proceedings

by reporting watch team | Sep 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The Times published a story on 13 September under the headline, ‘Judge lets 14-year-old boy choose his own lawyer’. The judgment is on BAILII here – Re Z (A Child: Care Proceedings: Separate Representation)  [2018] EWFC B57. We don’t know why the Times has not...

The Muslim Foster Carer Case – the final chapter

by reporting watch team | Sep 10, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Last autumn we covered the so-called ‘muslim foster carer’ case, over a number of blog posts (you can find those posts here). This week, just as we’d given up hope of ever finding out what happened to the little girl at the heart of the case, the...

Plenty of fish, too little caviar

by Barbara Rich | Aug 21, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Burki v. Seventy Thirty Ltd, Seventy Thirty Ltd v. Burki [2018] EWHC 2151 (QB) A recent High Court judgment offers a vivid glimpse into the real-life world of “Wry Society”, a regular feature in the Financial Times How to Spend Itmagazine, which holds a mirror up to...

Leaving the country to evade care proceedings – how does the court in England & Wales get your children back?

by reporting watch team | Aug 14, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Hampshire County Council v C.E. and N.E. (Urgent preliminary ruling procedure – Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in matters of parental responsibility – Opinion) [2018] EUECJ C-325/18PPU_O (07 August 2018)   Introduction The following...