Shi-Anne Downer – Press Coverage and Serious Case Review

by reporting watch team | Feb 25, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

The publication of the Serious Case Review in the very sad case of Shi-Anne (Keegan) Downer, murdered at 18 months old by her Special Guardian Kandyce Downer, has prompted a fresh round of press coverage of the circumstances of her death. Kandyce Downer was convicted...

Open letter to the PSA – response from HCPC

by Lucy R | Feb 23, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Below is the text of an email response received on 16th February from the Health Care and Professional Council (HCPC), to our Open Letter of 10th February 2017 to the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) (we had cc’d the HCPC and the PSA invited them to...

What’s going on with damages claims under the Human Rights Act?

by Sarah P | Feb 21, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

IMPORTANT EDIT 29th June 2018 IMPORTANT EDIT RE THE STATUTORY CHARGE AND DAMAGES 29th June 2018 I am very pleased that this post is now redundant! Northamptonshire County Council & Anor v The Lord Chancellor(via the Legal Aid Agency) [2018], considers important...

Teresa Kirk and the Court of Protection – the end of an “astonishing story”

by Barbara Rich | Feb 20, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

On 14 February 2017, the Daily Mail reported on developments in a Court of Protection case that it has been following for some time: “an astonishing story that has come to represent all that is wrong with Britain’s shadowy Court of Protection.”  The story is that of...

Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up

by reporting watch team | Feb 19, 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 REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES...

Media reports on “the baby milk” case: Inaccurate? Spun? Harmful? A twitter discussion

by reporting watch team | Feb 17, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is our first attempt at storifying tweets…For future storifies we now have a storify account seethrujustice (it’s not very exciting yet). [<a href=”//storify.com/alicetwaite/media-reports-on-the-baby-milk-case-inaccurate-spu”...