by reporting watch team | Apr 1, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Search for ‘bloom divorce’ on google and all you get is items about Orlando Bloom’s ‘painful separation from his wife Miranda Kerr’. This post is about a different and altogether less attractive Mr Bloom (no, not the one off CBeebies...
by reporting watch team | Mar 31, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This week, the Judicial Reviews of the Parole Board’s decision to release serial sex offender John Worboys were successful. Apart from quashing the decision and sending it back to be reconsidered on better evidence, the High Court also struck down that bit of...
by reporting watch team | Mar 29, 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 Daily Mail – We questioned whether...
by Sarah P | Mar 28, 2018 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
C (interim judgment on expert evidence) [2018] EWFC B9 (24 January 2018) This is an ‘ordinary’ family judgment but noteworthy because it shows: The considerable dangers of expert evidence which is not based on clear facts or reliable clinical practice; How...
by reporting watch team | Mar 25, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
There have been a couple of examples of family court judges sending people to prison for deliberately ignoring their orders. Although it doesn’t happen very often, as judges prefer to find another way to deal with matters where possible, family judges can and do send...
by reporting watch team | Mar 22, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In a judgment published on the BAILII website this week, a High Court Judge, Mr Justice MacDonald has criticized barristers involved in a case concerning the contact a 13 year old girl should have with her father, for the way they constantly interrupted one...
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