by reporting watch team | May 22, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This is a guest post by Katie Gollop QC and Sarah Pope. Katie represented Great Ormond Street hospital in the Charlie Gard case, and tweets as @katiegollop Sarah and Katie appeared in the recent case of Re R (A Child) [2018] EWFC 28. Sarah tweets as @sbvpope. Shortly...
by Lucy R | May 21, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
We recently wrote about an article by Louise Tickle in the Guardian which had caused a certain amount of controversy, in particular arising from her use of the term ‘kidnap’ to describe failures of local authorities to act appropriately when accommodating...
by Allan Norman | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Introduction: #AlfiesArmy v #ImWithAlderHey – an unbridgeable divide? Alfie’s life, his legal battles, and his death, have polarised opinion. Decent people on both sides of the debate have been able to acknowledge how awful it must be to be in this situation –...
by Polly Morgan | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
By now, we all know the terrible story of Alfie Evans, who spent 16 months of his two years of life in hospital as his brain turned to water and cerebral spinal fluid and who died following the removal of life sustaining ventilation. I say ‘we all know’, but the...
by Lucy R | May 12, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the April 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 464 On 15 February 2018, The Transparency Project began a dialogue about the use of language by professionals who...
by reporting watch team | May 12, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
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 The Telegraph and the Times – We...
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