by reporting watch team | Feb 25, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The publication of the Serious Case Review in the very sad case of Shi-Anne (Keegan) Downer, murdered at 18 months old by her Special Guardian Kandyce Downer, has prompted a fresh round of press coverage of the circumstances of her death. Kandyce Downer was convicted...
by Lucy R | Feb 23, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Below is the text of an email response received on 16th February from the Health Care and Professional Council (HCPC), to our Open Letter of 10th February 2017 to the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) (we had cc’d the HCPC and the PSA invited them to...
by Sarah P | Feb 21, 2017 | Explanation
This post follows a recent report of an adult who has taken legal action against a local authority for failures to do their job properly or at all, resulting in harm to that individual. It is an attempt to provide a brief over-view of the likely routes to a claim for...
by Barbara Rich | Feb 20, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
On 14 February 2017, the Daily Mail reported on developments in a Court of Protection case that it has been following for some time: “an astonishing story that has come to represent all that is wrong with Britain’s shadowy Court of Protection.” The story is that of...
by reporting watch team | Feb 17, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is our first attempt at storifying tweets…For future storifies we now have a storify account seethrujustice (it’s not very exciting yet). [<a href=”//storify.com/alicetwaite/media-reports-on-the-baby-milk-case-inaccurate-spu”...
by reporting watch team | Feb 16, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There are reports of an unusual case heard in the Court of Appeal recently: a wife appeals against a judge’s refusal to grant her a divorce from her husband because she can’t stand his behaviour any more and says the relationship has broken down...
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