by reporting watch team | Nov 13, 2021 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We tweeted about this case in Croydon Family Court, having read this local media report on it, ‘Mother wins Croydon court fight over psychologist’ published on 18 October. The article says that a mother in family court proceedings had objected to the appointment...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 31, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On Monday 25 October, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a programme in its ‘Analysis’ series about Parental Alienation. The programme is repeated today Sunday 31 October at 9.30 p.m. and is also available as a podcast. The presenter of the programme is journalist,...
by Guest Post | Oct 30, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
A comment by Sir James Munby on the Consultation Paper dated 28 October 2021 published by the FRC Lead Judges In a paper which I prepared for the recent At A Glance Conference on 13 October 2021 I suggested, in the course of a wide-ranging discussion of accountability...
by Lucy R | Oct 29, 2021 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The President’s Transparency Review has finally concluded. After a period long enough to gestate both an elephant and a human baby consecutively, was it worth the wait? Our response is an emphatic ‘Yes’. The president has both acknowledged the massive, weighty,...
by Lucy R | Oct 25, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Resources
There has been a lot of discussion recently about experts in the family court, prompted partly as a result of the recent publication of a ‘memorandum’ on the topic by the President of the Family Division, and partly as a result of some recent press...
by Guest Post | Oct 20, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
This post is by Delia Minoprio. We asked Delia to look at a news article we saw in the Liverpool Echo, and to consider it alongside the judgment in the case it related to. Let me start with a confession: I’m a family law barrister and I feel a little embarrassed by it...
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