by Louise Tickle | Oct 16, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Last month, senior BuzzFeed reporter Emily Dugan spent three days at Birmingham’s central family and civil court, researching a fascinating and in-depth article that detailed the effects of legal aid cuts on people who can’t afford a lawyer and who therefore...
by Barbara Rich | Oct 15, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE 18 October – I’ve added a footnote to discuss some points which have been raised in Twitter conversations following my original post. On 11 October 2017, this headline appeared on the BBC news website. The story naturally aroused a lot of interest...
by Paul M | Oct 13, 2017 | Cases, Comment
UPDATE 16 October: It is now reported that the NMA is lodging an appeal against the decision explained below. Details here. The High Court has rejected NMA’s claim for judicial review of the PRP’s decision to recognise IMPRESS as an independent, charter-compliant...
by Lucy R | Oct 11, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Eastenders has recently run a story line about child protection. It hasn’t gone down very well with social workers, with many newspapers covering the criticism of it along the lines set out in The Daily Mail here : Viewers have slammed an...
by Louise Tickle | Oct 9, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The Muslim foster care case first reported in The Times has prompted harsh criticism of the choices made by journalists when investigating complaints about poor social work practice. I make no comment on the writing, front page positioning, headline or the intentions...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 4, 2017 | Comment, Court of Protection, Transparency News
Questions about the Court of Protection transparency pilot Since January 2016, what are (under the original court rules) ‘private’ court hearings in the Court of Protection have been held in public under a so-called pilot scheme. ‘Pilot’,...
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