by reporting watch team | Aug 4, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Resources
CAFCASS and Women’s Aid have collaborated on research about allegations of domestic abuse in child contact cases. We published a guest post by psychologist Sue Whitcombe on this here : Looking beyond the headlines: domestic abuse allegations in family...
by Sarah P | Jul 28, 2017 | Comment
On 25th July 2017 the legal blogger John Bolch published his further thoughts on the post truth world and its impact on the wider understanding of family law, with particular regard to the work of The Transparency Project. I am happy to take some time to reply as I...
by Barbara Rich | Jul 23, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder was on Radio 3 as I drove across London a week or so ago. It’s music I’ve always found nearly unbearable to listen to, because it’s about the death of children. The poems Mahler set to music were written by the 19th century German poet...
by reporting watch team | Jul 17, 2017 | Comment
Our post on the FRG s20 report Cooperation or Coercion has prompted this guest post by John Simmonds, Director of Policy, Research and Development, CoramBAAF. We are expecting a guest post from Cathy Ashley at Family Rights Group in due course. The publication of the...
by Sarah P | Jul 10, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
There are three sides to every story – your side, my side and the truth. The judgment in Gibbs v Gibbs [2017] EWHC 1700 (Fam) was handed down on 29th June 2017. It raises some immediate and interesting questions about how the family courts deal with evidence and...
by Allan Norman | Jul 5, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
As is now well-known, Charlie Gard’s case reached the end of its legal road last week, when the European Court of Human Rights decided that his case, and the case brought on his behalf by his parents, was inadmissible. At the same time, it decided that the...
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