An Example Of A McKenzie Friend Who Didn’t Help Anyone

by reporting watch team | Jun 29, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

In the judgment from a case called H (Children : exclusion of Mckenzie friend) [2017] EWFC B31 (05 March 2017), Her Honour Judge Atkinson sets out in detail, why permission to appeal an order banning a paid McKenzie friend from “helping” a mother involved...

Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by reporting watch team | Jun 24, 2017 | Analysis, FCReportingWatch

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 COURTS CASES  Corrections of inaccurate,...

Grandparents must NEVER be told their daughter had twins

by reporting watch team | Jun 23, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The Daily Mail reported on 20 June that a judge had ruled that “Grandparents must NEVER be told their daughter had twins…as mother plans to give babies away”. A number of people tweeted to ask what judgment this related to and we recognized it instantly as one that we...

Charlie Gard – the case for interim measures to preserve life

by Allan Norman | Jun 19, 2017 | Analysis, FCReportingWatch

(The outcome of the Supreme Court permission to appeal hearing is here.  The Supreme Court announcement of a further procedural hearing today is here. Other posts on our blog about this case can be found here STOP PRESS: This evening’s ECHR press release is...

Correction Requests Update

by reporting watch team | Jun 18, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We recently made a further complaint to The Telegraph about Christopher Booker’s coverage of the case of Re H (A Child) (Interim Care Order : fact finding) [2017] EWHC 518 (Fam) on 21 May (you can read the post about that complaint here). We have now heard back...

Parental Alienation – an alien concept?

by Lucy Reed | Jun 16, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This post is about a case called : B (A 14 Year Old Boy), Re [2017] EWFC B28 (11 May 2017), a decision of His Honour Judge Simon Wood recently published. It is a very sad case. B has not seen his father since 2011, and the case revolved around what further steps could...