by reporting watch team | Dec 5, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
In Part 1 of this blog post, we provided an update on policy and practice regarding issues of parental alienation. Re D [2018] EWFC B64 is a very lengthy (64 pages) fact-finding judgment by HHJ Clifford Bellamy in Chesterfield Family Court, delivered on 19...
by reporting watch team | Dec 5, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
It is now a year since The Guardian published startling claims that Cafcass (in England) were introducing new polices and practice guidance that would ‘crack down’ on parents who were guilty of manipulating their children through ‘parental alienation’. It soon...
by Lucy R | Dec 4, 2018 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
This morning, finding myself in Leeds and with a morning to spare I attended Leeds Family Court to try a spot of legal blogging in a court that I was unfamiliar with. I arrived by 9.15am (slightly later than planned thanks to the genius of google maps) and on...
by Lucy R | Dec 1, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
When we first posted on Tuesday about the Sammy Woodhouse story as it appeared in The Times (initially an anonymous story but swiftly identified as a story about Sammy and her son) the only real source of information was The Times itself (and a brief video posted on...
by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Since the Sammy Woodhouse story first hit the news on Tuesday, the shape of the campaign she has launched for a change in the law relating to the rights of rapist fathers has gone through a number of changes. However, one early call was for guidance on the...
by Louise Tickle | Nov 28, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This is a blog post by Louise Tickle, journalist member of The Transparency Project. It relates to yesterday’s Times article by Andrew Norfolk and the blog post from our chair Lucy Reed that we published yesterday in response, and in which we indicated that we...
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