by reporting watch team | Sep 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Times published a story on 13 September under the headline, ‘Judge lets 14-year-old boy choose his own lawyer’. The judgment is on BAILII here – Re Z (A Child: Care Proceedings: Separate Representation) [2018] EWFC B57. We don’t know why the Times has not...
by Lucy R | Sep 12, 2018 | FCReportingWatch
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the August 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 1062. As we noted in our June column, ‘Press reporting on family courts’ [2018] Fam Law 750, there seems...
by Sarah P | Sep 11, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On September 6th 2018 The Sun published an article ‘They Stole my Baby’ – Mum’s heartbreaking tale of how secret courts took her baby away forever – as we reveal children are being ripped from parents in record numbers. What follows is the usual...
by reporting watch team | Sep 10, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Last autumn we covered the so-called ‘muslim foster carer’ case, over a number of blog posts (you can find those posts here). This week, just as we’d given up hope of ever finding out what happened to the little girl at the heart of the case, the...
by Paul M | Sep 9, 2018 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Trends
A long awaited reform of the divorce laws in England and Wales now seems close to becoming a reality, after Buzzfeed News revealed on 7 September that “justice secretary David Gauke is set to announce a consultation on no-fault divorce in which he will call for...
by reporting watch team | Aug 22, 2018 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
We are very excited. After months of liaison with the Family Procedure Rules Committee our proposal to permit legal bloggers into family court hearings is going to be piloted. The pilot will launch on 1 October and run for 9 months until 30 June 2019, so it’s no...
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