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...
by reporting watch team | Jan 17, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
This post is about a case called : A and B (Children) [2018] EWHC 3491 (Fam) (20 December 2018). In this case the recently retired President of the Family Division Sir James Munby had to deal with an application for reporting restriction orders arising from care...
by Lucy R | Jan 16, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Yesterday I had a commitment in London and was determined to do a bit of legal blogging whilst in town. I had skim-read the lists for the Family Division and Court of Appeal at the Royal Court of Justice before getting on the train, and planned to make my way there to...
by Julie Doughty | Jan 14, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Earlier this month, I had my first opportunity to attend the Family Court under the legal blogging pilot, Practice Direction 36J. I’d had some correspondence with the judges in the court nearest to me, Cardiff (which hears cases from numerous local authority areas in...
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