Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by reporting watch team | Jul 3, 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  Inaccurate, misleading or distorting ...

Charlie Gard Update

by reporting watch team | Jul 2, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We last wrote about the case of Charlie Gard when the European Court was still considering Charlie’s parents’ application. Since then the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have rejected the application as inadmissible (decision here), meaning that the...

The limits of the court’s influence over adult disputes about children

by Sarah P | Jun 30, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

The judgment in the case of T v S (Wardship) [2011] was handed down on 27th May 2011 but only recently appeared on the BAILII Twitter feed. I was interested, not only because it is a judgment of Hedley J – a reliably intelligent and compassionate Judge –...

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...