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...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 4, 2017 | Comment, Court of Protection, Transparency News, Trends
With many thanks to Barbara Rich for explaining what this all means for people involved in CoP cases. Context and background When the Court of Protection was established in its present form in 2007, the relevant court rules were written to cover two separate...
by Guest Post | Jul 3, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Court of Protection
This is a guest post by Jenny Kitzinger, Professor at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and Celia Kitzinger, Professor in Sociology, University of York, co-founders of the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre @CDOCuk...
by Sarah P | Jun 30, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
The judgment in the case of T v S (Wardship) [2011] was handed down on 27th May 2011 but only recently appeared on the BAILII Twitter feed. I was interested, not only because it is a judgment of Hedley J – a reliably intelligent and compassionate Judge –...
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