Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by reporting watch team | Aug 18, 2018 | FCReportingWatch

Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES BBC News – In the last Roundup we...

Leaving the country to evade care proceedings – how does the court in England & Wales get your children back?

by reporting watch team | Aug 14, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Hampshire County Council v C.E. and N.E. (Urgent preliminary ruling procedure – Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in matters of parental responsibility – Opinion) [2018] EUECJ C-325/18PPU_O (07 August 2018)   Introduction The following...

VACANCY : PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR

by reporting watch team | Aug 12, 2018 | FCReportingWatch, Project, Transparency News

Closing date : noon 10 September 2018. £30,000 p.a. plus 3% pension contribution. 12 month contract. 35 h pw. Potential job share, semi-flexible hours. Work from home. About us The Transparency Project is a small charity founded in 2015 that aims to make family courts...

‘Habitual Residence’ – sloppy explanations of the law about child abduction

by reporting watch team | Aug 9, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

We have been alerted to some less than perfect summaries of the law around international child abduction by the BBC recently. When a child is abducted to a foreign country away from their other parent, two things are a given: emotions will be running high and the law...

Transparency Project – some big news!

by reporting watch team | Aug 3, 2018 | FCReportingWatch, Project, Transparency News

We’re recruiting! We’re really pleased to announced that The Transparency Project have been awarded a further consolidation grant from the Legal Education Foundation, and we will shortly be launching the recruitment process for a new full time post of...

Void, Valid and Very Confusing – what is the status of Sharia Marriages in the UK?

by reporting watch team | Aug 3, 2018 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The High Court here in London has recently considered the status of an islamic marriage, that did not comply with all the usual formalities required in England & Wales. It has generated a lot of confused and confusing headlines – the marriage has been...