by Julie Doughty | May 17, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
In The Times last week, family courts were accused of being ‘secretive’ because they do not advertise the names of people who are getting divorced – under the headline ‘Call to end divorce case secrecy’ (paywall). ‘Secret’...
by reporting watch team | May 15, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
Re B (change of residence; parental alienation) [2017] EWFC B24 is the recently published judgment from a family court decision that a child had been alienated from her father by her mother and should move to live with her father. One of the aims of the...
by reporting watch team | May 7, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This blog post is about a case which provides a useful discussion point around questions of privacy of information in family cases, and what can and can’t be disclosed about them. It illustrates how unclear things can be. The case is S v SP and CAFCASS [2016]...
by reporting watch team | May 6, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We wrote here about this case, involving a little girl “W” who had been made the subject of a placement order, allowing her to be placed for adoption away from her family. In the meantime, the original decision that had dealt with her and her siblings had...
by reporting watch team | May 6, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, Notorious
The Daily Mail report today that : Loving note tucked away in a photo album proved parents accused of almost killing their baby did NOT violently shake her This is about baby Effie, who spent several long months away from the care of her loving parents whilst concerns...
by reporting watch team | May 4, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In MS v MN [2017] EWHC 324 (Fam) Mr Justice Moor allows a mother’s appeal against an order that there should be direct contact between the father and his children, where the court had made quite serious findings of domestic violence against him. The judge had...
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