About that civil partnership case ….

by Polly Morgan | Jun 30, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

There’s been a great deal of misunderstanding and misreporting around Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment about civil partnerships*. Civil partnership was introduced by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and is presently open to same-sex couples only. It was therefore a...

How effective is press regulation when it comes to accuracy?

by reporting watch team | Jun 24, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

We recently complained to The Daily Mail about an inaccurate article compounded by a particularly misleading headline which extracted a minor fact from a judgment that had potential to make an attention grabbing headline, and made it sound as if it was what the case...

Bob the builder – Mail : No we won’t!

by reporting watch team | Jun 21, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

We wrote recently about an article and headline in The Daily Mail that we thought was misleading. The article headlined a social worker’s criticism of a mother for leaving her child on a Bob The Builder toy car when he was too little for it – and overall...

Bob the Builder – Mail, please fix it!

by reporting watch team | Jun 6, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

The Daily Mail reported yesterday that a ‘Nurse’s one-year-old son is taken from her care after she let him sit in a Bob The Builder toy car that was ‘inappropriate’ for his age’. There are 1,200 comments on the article. What the heck? Do...

Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and R (A Child): Why A Medical Treatment Significant Harm Test Would Hinder Not Help

by reporting watch team | May 22, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This is a guest post by Katie Gollop QC and Sarah Pope. Katie represented Great Ormond Street hospital in the Charlie Gard case, and tweets as @katiegollop Sarah and Katie appeared in the recent case of Re R (A Child) [2018] EWFC 28. Sarah tweets as @sbvpope. Shortly...

The Abuse of Alfie’s Rights: A Gilded Death is Still a Death

by Allan Norman | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Introduction: #AlfiesArmy v #ImWithAlderHey – an unbridgeable divide? Alfie’s life, his legal battles, and his death, have polarised opinion. Decent people on both sides of the debate have been able to acknowledge how awful it must be to be in this situation –...