A grandmother who wanted to complain, and a local authority that argued it shouldn’t be named

by Louise Tickle | Nov 10, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

Louise Tickle (award winning journalist and Transparency Project member) on applying to report the grandmother’s experience from ABC (A child) Re [2017]  B75 (30 October 2017) and to name the council concerned. (Her original news piece commissioned by the...

Online divorces – click here to end the marriage?

by Polly Morgan | Nov 2, 2017 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The Daily Mail have reported on a pilot project in which people start divorce proceedings by completing an online form. The project, which is running in Nottingham, has apparently had really positive results. The current method for starting a divorce is to post the...

Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by reporting watch team | Oct 29, 2017 | 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 The Express – On Monday the Express...

The Family Court : Should privacy trump accountability? What do you think?

by reporting watch team | Oct 28, 2017 | FCReportingWatch

The Transparency Project will be hosting a debate on 5 December in Bristol at 6pm at The Station, to mark the publication of our Guidance Note for families and professionals : Publication of Family Court Judgments. The debate will be chaired by His Honour Judge...

Covert Recording : A hot potato lob by the Court of Appeal

by reporting watch team | Oct 24, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The Court of Appeal delivered judgment in Re B (A Child) [2017] EWCA Civ 1579 last week. In it they consider (but do not resolve) the question of how the Family Court should deal with evidence obtained by covert recording. Whilst it took the Court of Appeal almost a...

Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2017 | FCReportingWatch, Uncategorized

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 “A very provocative broadside” – are women...