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...

Hi Sky, Corrected your misleading headline, love TP xxx

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...

Another runaway mum in the news – what’s the story?

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...