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...
by reporting watch team | Feb 15, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a post by Zoe Saunders, barrister at St John’s Chambers about the case of Iqbal v Iqbal [2017] EWCA Civ 19 (25 January 2017). Enforcement of family law orders in financial cases is not a straightforward process. There are relatively few family...
by Lucy R | Feb 15, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We recently flagged inaccuracy in the reporting of a care case by the Telegraph, where children were permanently removed from the care of their family, apparently because of the mother’s insistence on co-sleeping. The case wasn’t really about co-sleeping...
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