Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by reporting watch team | Aug 6, 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   Are there other cases like...

Public and private, the limits of transparency in Charlie Gard’s case – an update

by Barbara Rich | Aug 6, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Uncategorized

UPDATED 23 AUGUST 2017 to add developments since date of first posting under the sub-heading “The story becomes the story” Over the weekend of 22 and 23 July I wrote a post about the legal dispute between Great Ormond Street Hospital and the parents of 11...

Joint Research : CAFCASS and Women’s Aid

by reporting watch team | Aug 4, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Resources

CAFCASS and Women’s Aid have collaborated on research about allegations of domestic abuse in child contact cases. We published a guest post by psychologist Sue Whitcombe on this here : Looking beyond the headlines: domestic abuse allegations in family...

10 cases like Charlie’s? Actually we’re not sure…

by reporting watch team | Aug 1, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Trends

We wrote earlier today about a Guardian article that suggested that there had been 10 cases like Charlie Gard’s so far this year (18 last year), and that they were being dealt with in secret. You can read that post here : Are there other cases like Charlie’s? We...

Update on Charlie Gard case – The last stage of the litigation: facts and sources

by Barbara Rich | Aug 1, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This post was originally posted on the morning of 1 August 2017 as a chronological update of developments in the case since we posted our last update on 18 July.  In the light of a comment in response, we thought it would be helpful to extend it to cover the whole of...

Are there other cases like Charlie’s?

by reporting watch team | Aug 1, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Trends

The Guardian reports there have been : Ten cases like Charlie Gard’s heard in English courts this year saying that “figures emerge as debate grows over merits of legal secrecy and high-profile public campaigns”. The Guardian says that the figures...