by reporting watch team | Nov 11, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
We’ve recently covered a case where a grandmother was permitted by a family court judge to tell of her experience in trying to secure the care of her baby granddaughter from Gloucestershire Council. After conceding that the grandmother ought to be able to tell...
by Louise Tickle | Nov 10, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Louise Tickle (award winning journalist and Transparency Project member) on applying to report the grandmother’s experience from ABC (A child) Re [2017] B75 (30 October 2017) and to name the council concerned. (Her original news piece commissioned by the...
by Polly Morgan | Nov 2, 2017 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Daily Mail have reported on a pilot project in which people start divorce proceedings by completing an online form. The project, which is running in Nottingham, has apparently had really positive results. The current method for starting a divorce is to post the...
by reporting watch team | Oct 24, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Court of Appeal delivered judgment in Re B (A Child) [2017] EWCA Civ 1579 last week. In it they consider (but do not resolve) the question of how the Family Court should deal with evidence obtained by covert recording. Whilst it took the Court of Appeal almost a...
by Louise Tickle | Oct 16, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Last month, senior BuzzFeed reporter Emily Dugan spent three days at Birmingham’s central family and civil court, researching a fascinating and in-depth article that detailed the effects of legal aid cuts on people who can’t afford a lawyer and who therefore...
by Barbara Rich | Oct 15, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE 18 October – I’ve added a footnote to discuss some points which have been raised in Twitter conversations following my original post. On 11 October 2017, this headline appeared on the BBC news website. The story naturally aroused a lot of interest...
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