by reporting watch team | Oct 26, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
The Children And Social Work Bill is going through Parliament at present. It has been controversial due to parts which some have said would allow social services to be privatised and which could remove current safeguards. This post is about another aspect of the Bill,...
by Sarah P | Oct 23, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The recent decisions of Hayden J concerning a 7 year old boy, whose mother insisted he wished to be raised as a girl, set out a wide variety of the issues that concern the Transparency Project and which have provoked strong emotion for many readers. a complicated set...
by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Court of Appeal has clarified the question of how courts should deal with cases where one parent takes a child to live in a distant part of the country without the agreement of the other. The case is Re R (Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 1016 (20 October 2016) and the full...
by reporting watch team | Oct 21, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This week Christopher Booker, chose this as his topic for his Sunday Telegraph column : The terrifying tale of how Britain’s most secret court imprisoned a grandmother This is of course a very worrying headline. The article itself is also likely to...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 15, 2016 | Cases, Court of Protection
In the words of the song, the ‘secret’ Court of Protection is ‘no secret anymore’ because since January 2016, hearings are held in open court, unless the circumstances are exceptional. Applications for committal for contempt are always held in...
by Paul M | Oct 7, 2016 | Cases, Explanation
Conducting your own case as a litigant in person (LiP) is hard enough as it is, without being given a massive bundle of the other side’s documents and law reports at the door of the court, just as the hearing is about to begin. Last week a judge in the High Court...
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