by reporting watch team | Jan 13, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
Thanks to Emily Ward for alerting us to this gem of a headline from Sky News : Man loses court fight over wife’s ‘flirtatious’ kisses on text messages.A family court judge has said a woman’s kisses on texts to her former husband are not proof...
by reporting watch team | Jan 6, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Shortly before Christmas reports began to emerge of a young mother who had disappeared with her little boy, and of the High Court Judge who gave permission for the family to be publicly named and photos shown in order to help locate them. At the time we weren’t...
by Julie Doughty | Jan 3, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This question was asked by Lord Justice Peter Jackson in a judgment reported last month, Re F (A Child: Placement Order: Proportionality) [2018] EWCA Civ 2761 The risk here was of future significant harm and the remedy was a closed adoption. However, this...
by Polly Morgan | Dec 20, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
In December 2017, I wrote about Privacy and the Princess, a case involving the divorce of two members of the Luxembourg royal family, Prince Louis and Princess Tessy. The hearing I discussed was about what could be reported about their financial positions given the...
by reporting watch team | Dec 9, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Keith Cooper, who is a senior staff writer for The Doctor magazine. Keith kindly agreed to write a post at our request when we saw his extraordinary writing about a family court case, and realised that a huge amount of work must have gone into...
by reporting watch team | Dec 5, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
In Part 1 of this blog post, we provided an update on policy and practice regarding issues of parental alienation. Re D [2018] EWFC B64 is a very lengthy (64 pages) fact-finding judgment by HHJ Clifford Bellamy in Chesterfield Family Court, delivered on 19...
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