by Paul M | Feb 23, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We reported earlier on the High Court’s decision to allow a hospital to withdraw mechanical ventilation from a baby, who had been starved of oxygen during his birth and had been declared “brain-stem dead” by doctors. Now the Court of Appeal have given their...
by Lucy R | Feb 20, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
I made an impromptu visit to the family court in Oxford last week, and was able to sit in on most of the hearings in a District Judge’s list. I was permitted to report the details of each of the hearings I attended, subject to preserving the anonymity of the...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 14, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
A new research report paints a very alarming picture of the way in which some family courts are dealing with cases where there is domestic abuse, ignoring the procedures put in place by court rules. Academics at the University of Sussex conducted a survey of 88...
by reporting watch team | Feb 13, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a post by Emily Boardman. Emily is a founding partner at Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne LLP – family lawyers and mediators based in Oxfordshire. She has a national practice in adoption proceedings, appeals and representing parents in care proceedings. Emily...
by Lucy R | Feb 11, 2020 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
It was last May, not long after he had dealt with journalist and TP member Louise Tickle’s successful appeal against a wrongly imposed reporting restriction order, that the President of the Family Division announced he would be holding a ‘Transparency...
by reporting watch team | Feb 10, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a talk by Sir James Munby (lately President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales) at the Conference in Edinburgh on 10 February 2020 of Shared Parenting Scotland It is good of you to invite me to this important Conference....
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