by reporting watch team | May 8, 2017 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Here at The Transparency Project, we often politely challenge inaccurate reporting by the press (sometimes we are more polite than others). Everyone gets it wrong sometimes (including us), and some of the errors we’ve flagged have been a matter of simple human...
by reporting watch team | May 7, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This blog post is about a case which provides a useful discussion point around questions of privacy of information in family cases, and what can and can’t be disclosed about them. It illustrates how unclear things can be. The case is S v SP and CAFCASS [2016]...
by reporting watch team | May 6, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We wrote here about this case, involving a little girl “W” who had been made the subject of a placement order, allowing her to be placed for adoption away from her family. In the meantime, the original decision that had dealt with her and her siblings had...
by reporting watch team | May 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 COURTS CASES Notably accurate (or otherwise...
by reporting watch team | May 4, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In MS v MN [2017] EWHC 324 (Fam) Mr Justice Moor allows a mother’s appeal against an order that there should be direct contact between the father and his children, where the court had made quite serious findings of domestic violence against him. The judge had...
by reporting watch team | May 3, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Last week we wrote about the case of baby Effie, a baby diagnosed with the rare Ehler’s Danloss Syndrome IV, who had been returned to the care of her parents following a family court hearing. Our blog post is here : Baby removed from parents over ‘abuse’ is...
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