by Polly Morgan | Feb 11, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
On 8 February, justice minister David Gauke announced proposals to reform the law of divorce to introduce ‘no fault divorce’. What is the current law? Currently, a person wanting to divorce must prove that their marriage has irretrievably broken down and...
by reporting watch team | Feb 4, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court casesExplaining or commenting on published judgments of family court casesHighlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES A press release was agreed with judicial...
by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious
Our Alice Twaite attended a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today, where Mr Justice Williams approved the publication of a press release agreed between various of Olly’s family members, in the hope it will encourage his and his mum’s safe...
by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
A little while ago, we wrote about some pretty poor lightweight reporting of a serious judgment. Initially, our attention was drawn to a terrible headline from Sky, but it soon became clear that most of the papers were writing in similar terms about the case –...
by Guest Post | Jan 23, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
This is a Guest Post by Jess Mant, a Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University, specialising in family law, access to justice, legal aid and issues of structural inequality. On 21st January 2019, the long-awaited Domestic Abuse Bill was published, following the...
by reporting watch team | Jan 21, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court casesExplaining or commenting on published judgments of family court casesHighlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES Sky News (and others) – We commented on...
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