An X worth waiting for – Xpress wins our hearts!

by reporting watch team | Feb 14, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

Ok, perhaps we’re getting a bit over excited this Valentine’s day, but we’ve just had a response from the team at the Daily Express, about our almost forgotten complaint on the (not) ‘flirtatious text messages’ news items (see our post...

‘Sensationalist’ ‘provocative’ and ‘unhelpful’ – why I was prepared to say in a national newspaper that our state kidnaps children

by Louise Tickle | Feb 12, 2019 | Cases, Comment

This blog post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 1375. ‘Abduction: (legal use) The illegal removal of a child from its parents or guardians.’ ‘Kidnap: Abduct (someone) and hold them captive, typically to obtain a...

Update on the case about missing Olly

by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious

Our Alice Twaite attended a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today, where Mr Justice Williams approved the publication of a press release agreed between various of Olly’s family members, in the hope it will encourage his and his mum’s safe...

A mixed picture on complaints

by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

A little while ago, we wrote about some pretty poor lightweight reporting of a serious judgment. Initially, our attention was drawn to a terrible headline from Sky, but it soon became clear that most of the papers were writing in similar terms about the case –...

An interesting judgment about reporting restrictions

by reporting watch team | Jan 17, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch

This post is about a case called : A and B (Children) [2018] EWHC 3491 (Fam) (20 December 2018). In this case the recently retired President of the Family Division Sir James Munby had to deal with an application for reporting restriction orders arising from care...

Journalists and legal bloggers sitting in a row

by Lucy R | Jan 16, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

Yesterday I had a commitment in London and was determined to do a bit of legal blogging whilst in town. I had skim-read the lists for the Family Division and Court of Appeal at the Royal Court of Justice before getting on the train, and planned to make my way there to...