by reporting watch team | Apr 12, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Re W is a very long judgment. Re W (A Child) [2017] EWHC 829 (Fam) (06 March 2017) This post is but an outline of it and does not cover the details in full. It is heartbreaking to read, and will have been heartbreaking for W’s parents to hear when delivered last...
by Julie D | Apr 12, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
An unusual case from the Court of Appeal was published on BAILII this week, LL v the Lord Chancellor [2017 EWCA Civ 237, in which a High Court judge was criticised for ‘gross and obvious irregularity’ in dealing with a father in a family hearing and, as a...
by reporting watch team | Apr 10, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We wrote about this case whilst Samantha Baldwin and her boys were still missing. Here : Police hunt for mother who has abducted her own children – what on earth is going on? At the time, we were hampered by a lack of information and restrictions on reporting some of...
by reporting watch team | Apr 3, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
[Update 6 April 2017: The BBC report that Samantha Baldwin and the children have been found safely. There is no further information available at present and we now expect things to go quiet in terms of information coming from the police / Family Court, at least for a...
by reporting watch team | Mar 25, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Actually, the first of those is a misnomer – as we explored in an earlier post the law on divorce in England & Wales requires behaviour (maybe unreasonable, maybe not) on the one part of a spouse that means it is unreasonable to now expect the other to...
by reporting watch team | Mar 17, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
Before new guidance from February 2014 (the Transparency Guidance), it was extremely rare for a judgment from a ‘routine’ family court case, outside of the High Court, raising no point of particular legal interest, to be placed in the public domain by being published...
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