by reporting watch team | Feb 18, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
This post is about a new judgment from the Court of Appeal called : R (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 198 (16 February 2018). It is about what approach the family court should take in deciding the background facts to a case where a crime might have been committed, and how...
by reporting watch team | Feb 5, 2018 | Analysis, 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 ITV This Morning and Daily Mail –...
by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
On 20 January the Daily Mail headline demanded : ‘Family court judge must explain why pianist jailed, says campaigner’ The campaigner was ex-MP John Hemming. The piano man was, we thought, a father whose protests on social media we had seen before, and in...
by reporting watch team | Jan 30, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We wrote back in January last year about a case where Mr Justice Peter Jackson (now in the Court of Appeal) had ruled against direct contact between children raised in an ultra-orthodox (Charedi) Jewish community and their transgender father, in essence because in...
by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This observation was made by HHJ Gareth Jones in Wrexham Family Court in March 2017, in a judgment Re E [2017] EWFC 101 published in January 2018. HHJ Jones is a transparency hero – he is the only judge in Wales whose judgments regularly appear on BAILII, in...
by reporting watch team | Jan 27, 2018 | 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 Daily Mail – Polly Morgan...
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