by Louise Tickle | Oct 12, 2018 | Comment
This blog post originally appeared in the August 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 957. Criminal courts are open to all, and lawyers barely bother to glance up when a reporter shuffles into the press bench. Decide to drop by a family court, though – which in almost all...
by Sarah P | Oct 11, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
And does anyone really understand it? On 9th October 2018 the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory published a summary of its report ‘Born into Care: Newborns in Care Proceedings in England’. The full report is now available on the Family Justice...
by Paul M | Sep 23, 2018 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch
The Cairncross review was set up by the government in March 2018 to investigate “how to sustain the production and distribution of high-quality journalism in a changing market”. It is chaired by Dame Frances Cairncross (a former journalist) and is...
by reporting watch team | Sep 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Times published a story on 13 September under the headline, ‘Judge lets 14-year-old boy choose his own lawyer’. The judgment is on BAILII here – Re Z (A Child: Care Proceedings: Separate Representation) [2018] EWFC B57. We don’t know why the Times has not...
by Paul M | Sep 13, 2018 | Comment, Transparency News
Judges should publish more judgments online, and they should engage more with the media, according to the Lord Chief Justice. “We cannot complain that the public does not understand what we do, and its importance, if we do not take steps to lift the veil a...
by Sarah P | Sep 11, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On September 6th 2018 The Sun published an article ‘They Stole my Baby’ – Mum’s heartbreaking tale of how secret courts took her baby away forever – as we reveal children are being ripped from parents in record numbers. What follows is the usual...
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