by reporting watch team | Jul 28, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last week BBC News and the Guardian reported the important public interest story of a father’s unlawful immigration detention, that left his three-year-old unnecessarily in care and at risk of a plan for adoption, despite the family court declaring they should...
by Polly Morgan | Jul 19, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The hoary chestnut, the ‘meal ticket for life’, has fallen from the media and hit us squarely on the head again. This time, the impetus is a Supreme Court case called Mills v Mills. Back when it reached the Court of Appeal, one of my colleagues here on the...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 18, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
“Parents with parental responsibility always have a qualified right to object and an unqualified right to remove their children at will (subject to any court orders about where the child is to live). Section 20 gives local authorities no compulsory powers over...
by reporting watch team | Jul 9, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Twitter commentators asked questions last week of a BBC headline: Thousands misusing abuse orders to get legal aid, says parenting charity And the ‘click-bait’ opening sentence of the story itself: Families Need Fathers says parents are being encouraged...
by reporting watch team | Jun 26, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Families Need Fathers have issued a press release, welcoming ideas put forward by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the incoming President of the Family Division, in a keynote address at their conference on the theme of restoring confidence in family justice, held on 23 June. The...
by Sarah P | Jun 12, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the May 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 605. There have now been two Bridget Lindley Memorial Lectures (BLML) organised by the Family Justice Council and both have...
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