by Julie Doughty | Jan 3, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This question was asked by Lord Justice Peter Jackson in a judgment reported last month, Re F (A Child: Placement Order: Proportionality) [2018] EWCA Civ 2761 The risk here was of future significant harm and the remedy was a closed adoption. However, this...
by Project Coordinator | Dec 21, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
My name is Annie, and some of you may know me as the author of Surviving Safeguarding; a parents’ guide to the child protection process. I’m a birth parent who has been through several sets of concurrent public and private law proceedings and now writes...
by Polly Morgan | Dec 20, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
In December 2017, I wrote about Privacy and the Princess, a case involving the divorce of two members of the Luxembourg royal family, Prince Louis and Princess Tessy. The hearing I discussed was about what could be reported about their financial positions given the...
by Julie Doughty | Dec 12, 2018 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 1465. THE NEW PILOT SCHEME FROM OCTOBER 2018 We are very pleased with the outcome of our application to the Family...
by reporting watch team | Dec 10, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew MacFarlane issued some guidance last week on the anonymisation of published judgments in family court cases. You can read that guidance here. The Daily Mail reported this as follows : Curtain of secrecy should be...
by reporting watch team | Dec 9, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Keith Cooper, who is a senior staff writer for The Doctor magazine. Keith kindly agreed to write a post at our request when we saw his extraordinary writing about a family court case, and realised that a huge amount of work must have gone into...
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