Reporting Financial Remedies Cases: An Important Initiative

by Guest Post | Oct 30, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

A comment by Sir James Munby on the Consultation Paper dated 28 October 2021 published by the FRC Lead Judges In a paper which I prepared for the recent At A Glance Conference on 13 October 2021 I suggested, in the course of a wide-ranging discussion of accountability...

Seeing invisible elephants – the transparency review is published

by Lucy R | Oct 29, 2021 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

The President’s Transparency Review has finally concluded. After a period long enough to gestate both an elephant and a human baby consecutively, was it worth the wait? Our response is an emphatic ‘Yes’. The president has both acknowledged the massive, weighty,...

Reporting on Financial Remedy cases

by Louise Tickle | Oct 16, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is the text of a speech given by journalist Louise Tickle delivered at the At A Glance Conference in London on 13 October 2021, reproduced with kind permission. I’ve never reported on a financial remedy case.  I’ve never been in a hearing about one either. ...

Reporting Financial Remedies Cases: The Journalist’s View – A Paper by Sir James Munby

by Guest Post | Oct 14, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

This is the text of a speech delivered at the at the At A Glance Conference in London on 13 October 2021, reproduced with kind thanks to Sir James Munby. I am a mere lawyer. I am neither a reporter nor a journalist, though we will shortly be hearing from a...

When Worlds – and Words – collide

by Louise Tickle | Oct 7, 2021 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

I’m on holiday in Greece when I hear about a case involving a mother who has taken her children some 10 hours travel-time from the family home, without their father’s knowledge or consent. It’s a case that involves allegations of domestic abuse, a father who admits he...

I watched Eastenders and analysed Scarlett’s family court drama so you don’t have to

by Malvika Jaganmohan | Oct 7, 2021 | Analysis, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

I confess, since Channel 5 cancelled Family Affairs, my commitment to British soaps has been sporadic at best. But once I heard that a juicy (and factually dubious) family court dispute was playing out on Eastenders involving glamorous villain, Janine Butcher, I...