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Re W (Adoption: Contact) and the importance of basic steps to trace wider family in the early stages, for a childs chances of growing up within her birth family

by reporting watch team | Dec 8, 2016 | FCReportingWatch

Re W (Adoption: Contact) [2016] EWHC 3118 (Fam) is a family court decision by Cobb J in the High Court. The judgment explaining this decision has just been published. The case This was the re hearing of a decision about whether a (by then) 2 and a half year old girl...
Why the Court of Appeal released a grandmother imprisoned for disobeying orders of the Court of Protection

Why the Court of Appeal released a grandmother imprisoned for disobeying orders of the Court of Protection

by reporting watch team | Dec 7, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Some time ago we wrote about the case of Mrs Kirk, a woman imprisoned for breaking orders made in the Court of Protection. She had taken an elderly and incapacitated man “M” to a care home in Portugal and refused to bring him back when ordered (or more...
Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up

Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up

by reporting watch team | Dec 4, 2016 | FCReportingWatch

Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family court cases;  Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family court cases; Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES The Guardian...

Adoption: “Nothing else will do” and the impact of decisions much earlier in the child protection process about mental health assessments and provision of therapy

by reporting watch team | Dec 1, 2016 | FCReportingWatch

Gloucestershire County Council v M & Ors is a recently published case where a family court judge at circuit judge level applied routine, established law to the particular circumstances of a 9 month old baby boy and his vulnerable young mother. Through no fault of...

England’s Stolen Children? Plus ca change, plus c’est le meme chose

by Sarah P | Nov 30, 2016 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

On November 15th 2016 a documentary aired on French television called ‘England’s Stolen Children’. ‘Researching Reform’ provided comment and a useful translation of the explanation of the programme’s contents.  If your French is...
Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up

Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up

by reporting watch team | Nov 27, 2016 | FCReportingWatch

  Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family cases Other transparency news     MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES  The Daily Telegraph...
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