by Paul M | Feb 3, 2018 | Comment
Should a disability prevent someone being a good parent? Is vulnerability the same as disability? What does the family justice system do to protect the rights of the disabled person to be a parent and of the child to be adequately parented? How can a vulnerable parent...
by David Burrows | Feb 1, 2018 | Comment
Clarity: legal aid law and access to rights The legal aid scheme has a central irony. Lord Bingham’s first rule of his Rule of Law was that ‘The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable’ (The Rule of Law Tom Bingham, 2010 at...
by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On 10 January, the Daily Mail reported about the alarming case of a baby named Teddy, who was removed from his parents’ care when just six-weeks old, and remained away from them for five months while there was investigation into the causes of bruising on his...
by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This observation was made by HHJ Gareth Jones in Wrexham Family Court in March 2017, in a judgment Re E [2017] EWFC 101 published in January 2018. HHJ Jones is a transparency hero – he is the only judge in Wales whose judgments regularly appear on BAILII, in...
by reporting watch team | Jan 27, 2018 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Daily Mail – Polly Morgan...
by Polly Morgan | Jan 24, 2018 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
I’m sorry to report that today’s Daily Mail article ‘The tick box divorce: Couples will fill in new ten-page online form detailing money and assets they want under plans to streamline the system’ is (to use a technical legal term) totes nonsense. I exaggerate. The...
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