by reporting watch team | Nov 12, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
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 Times – Tower Hamlets published an...
by reporting watch team | Nov 11, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
We’ve recently covered a case where a grandmother was permitted by a family court judge to tell of her experience in trying to secure the care of her baby granddaughter from Gloucestershire Council. After conceding that the grandmother ought to be able to tell...
by Louise Tickle | Nov 10, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Louise Tickle (award winning journalist and Transparency Project member) on applying to report the grandmother’s experience from ABC (A child) Re [2017] B75 (30 October 2017) and to name the council concerned. (Her original news piece commissioned by the...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 22, 2017 | Comment, Court of Protection
This is a guest post by Gillian Loomes, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds Law School Earlier this year, I spent a month attending hearings in the Court of Protection (CoP) as a public observer. This was part of my PhD (a socio-legal study examining how the...
by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Jo Edwards. Jo is a partner and Head of Family at Forsters solicitors and former Chair of Resolution. She tweets as @MissJoEdwards. “Women are destroying marriage!” screamed a line that caught my eye on Twitter this week. As I...
by reporting watch team | Oct 17, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Sanchia Berg. Sanchia is a BBC Reporter and tweets as @sanchia7. “Go down and see what you can get” was the commission from the then Today Editor Ceri Thomas. It was April 27 2009, the first day English Family Courts were...
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