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 –...

Alfie Evans, best interests, and parental rights

by Polly Morgan | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

By now, we all know the terrible story of Alfie Evans, who spent 16 months of his two years of life in hospital as his brain turned to water and cerebral spinal fluid and who died following the removal of life sustaining ventilation. I say ‘we all know’, but the...

Family Court Reporting Watch

by reporting watch team | May 12, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Telegraph and the Times – We...

Secret State Kidnap – breathless headline or blunt reality?

by reporting watch team | May 4, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

Yesterday the Guardian published Louise Tickle’s hard hitting opinion piece about failures of Herefordshire Council with the headline : The state has a terrible secret: it kidnaps our children. Unsurprisingly it has generated a lot of comment. With familiar...