by reporting watch team | Jul 16, 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 and the Telegraph – We...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 12, 2018 | FCReportingWatch
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the June 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 750. In this month’s column, we consider some issues about newspaper coverage of family courts and the wider context of...
by reporting watch team | Jul 9, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Twitter commentators asked questions last week of a BBC headline: Thousands misusing abuse orders to get legal aid, says parenting charity And the ‘click-bait’ opening sentence of the story itself: Families Need Fathers says parents are being encouraged...
by reporting watch team | Jul 2, 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 Sky and BBC News – Wrongly suggested...
by Polly Morgan | Jun 30, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There’s been a great deal of misunderstanding and misreporting around Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment about civil partnerships*. Civil partnership was introduced by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and is presently open to same-sex couples only. It was therefore a...
by reporting watch team | Jun 26, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Families Need Fathers have issued a press release, welcoming ideas put forward by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the incoming President of the Family Division, in a keynote address at their conference on the theme of restoring confidence in family justice, held on 23 June. The...
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