by Julie Doughty | May 17, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
In The Times last week, family courts were accused of being ‘secretive’ because they do not advertise the names of people who are getting divorced – under the headline ‘Call to end divorce case secrecy’ (paywall). ‘Secret’...
by reporting watch team | May 15, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
Re B (change of residence; parental alienation) [2017] EWFC B24 is the recently published judgment from a family court decision that a child had been alienated from her father by her mother and should move to live with her father. One of the aims of the...
by reporting watch team | May 14, 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...
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...
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