by reporting watch team | May 19, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
…Or so we imagine the headlines may run if and when a member of the press reads as far as the bottom few paragraphs of the unassuming A (A Minor : Fact Finding; Unrepresented Party) [2017] EWHC 1195 (Fam) (19 May 2017), a recent judgment of Mr Justice Anthony...
by Julie Doughty | May 17, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
In The Times last week, family courts were accused of being ‘secretive’ because they do not advertise the names of people who are getting divorced – under the headline ‘Call to end divorce case secrecy’ (paywall). ‘Secret’...
by Sarah P | May 11, 2017 | Comment, Project
On May 8th 2017 the Mothers in Law Blog published ‘An Open Letter to the Transparency Project’. We are very happy to respond; communication and dialogue about the family justice system is essential to our charitable objectives which we summarise in this...
by reporting watch team | May 3, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Last week we wrote about the case of baby Effie, a baby diagnosed with the rare Ehler’s Danloss Syndrome IV, who had been returned to the care of her parents following a family court hearing. Our blog post is here : Baby removed from parents over ‘abuse’ is...
by Lucy R | May 1, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We’ve already written a really long blog post about our struggles to obtain some clarification about an item appearing in the mainstream media concerning children removed from grandparents by a judge who apparently failed to give reasons for her decision. You...
by Lucy R | Apr 24, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
We apologise in advance. It began with a simple question, but this is a bit of a shaggy dog story…Bear with us. On 2 April, The Sunday Telegraph ran an item about a case in which a child “was taken away from her grandparents and put into foster care after...
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