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...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...
by Sarah P | Apr 29, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This photograph is from an article in Wired ‘How Facebooks Fake News fix made the Alfie Evans story go viral’ The sad case of Alfie Evans has attracted world wide attention in the last few days. There is a useful summary of the last year on the BBC...
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