by Polly Morgan | Jul 19, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The hoary chestnut, the ‘meal ticket for life’, has fallen from the media and hit us squarely on the head again. This time, the impetus is a Supreme Court case called Mills v Mills. Back when it reached the Court of Appeal, one of my colleagues here on the...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 18, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
“Parents with parental responsibility always have a qualified right to object and an unqualified right to remove their children at will (subject to any court orders about where the child is to live). Section 20 gives local authorities no compulsory powers over...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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