by Guest Post | Jun 29, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Charlotte John. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep.” Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Last year saw an abundant crop of “proprietary estoppel” disputes between...
by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | Jun 26, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
[COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED] This is a post by “Annie”, one half of our Project Coordination team at the Transparency Project. Annie is a birth mum who has experienced several sets of public and private law proceedings including a new-born removal, and that...
by Malvika Jaganmohan | Jun 26, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a first post from Malvika Jaganmohan, one of our new contributors. Malvika tweets as @MalvikaJaganmo1 Any family lawyer will tell you that finding a competent independent expert who can report in a timely manner is the Holy Grail of the family justice...
by Emma Nottingham | Jun 22, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and M (Acting by her Children’s Guardian) and OA In the recent case of Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v OA , the court had to decide the fate of a 13-month-old-girl, known as M,...
by Lucy R | Jun 17, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Transparency Project was founded in part to counter dodgy headlines and over-simplified or inaccurate media reports about all things family law. Every so often, distortion of what a case *really* says or means comes from within the system. This is one such...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 9, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
One of the tasks of the new review of family courts and domestic abuse announced last month by the MoJ is to examine courts’ use of barring orders. (By the way, we don’t know when the three months for the review starts, although we are now three weeks in from...
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