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...
by Lucy R | Mar 16, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We wrote about Christopher Booker’s recent piece : In Britain’s secretive family courts, the lawyers always win, in a blog post : Just add this one to the pile… We’ve now followed this up with a complaint to The Telegraph via their complaints...
by reporting watch team | Mar 6, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
On 27 February 2017 The Telegraph reported on an ongoing appeal in the Court of Appeal by a wealthy wife (Mrs Sharp) in respect of the financial order made following her divorce. Millionaire wife challenges divorce settlement which gave ex-husband half of £5.45m...
by reporting watch team | Mar 5, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Update : the main judgment in the case of Norman has now been published. You can read it here : Norman v Norman [2017] EWCA Civ 120 (03 March 2017) We’ve previously written about this case when it was covered in the press, and when an earlier judgment was released in...
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