by reporting watch team | Jan 17, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This week has seen news that the Crown Court is to begin to live stream sentencing remarks. Hot on the heels of that announcement came reports that the Court of Appeal will soon begin to live stream appeals in some family cases. There has been quite a lot of coverage...
by Lucy R | Jan 15, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In D (Fact-finding appeal) [2019] EWCA Civ 2302 (20 December 2019) Lord Justice Baker gives the lead judgment concerning an appeal from His Honour Judge Baker. The upshot is that, the question of the child’s injuries having been the subject of two attempts at...
by reporting watch team | Jan 10, 2020 | FCReportingWatch
Monday 13th- Friday 17th January 2.15pm This is a guest blog post from Clara Glynn. Clara is a Scottish based writer and television director with Hopscotch Films. I write Behind Closed Doors, which is now in its fourth series. My background...
by Emma Nottingham | Jan 3, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In 2019, we reported on the tragic case of Tafida Raqeeb. Raqeeb v Barts Health NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 2531 (Admin) and [2019] EWHC 2530 (Fam)). As a brief reminder, Tafida Raqeeb, now aged 5, experienced a catastrophic brain injury in February...
by Guest Post | Dec 31, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This post originally appeared at Linked In and on the Pennington Manches Cooper website and is re published with thanks. Its author, Tony Roe, is a consultant at Pennington Manches Cooper and tweets as @tonyroedivorce. The first working Monday in...
by Lucy R | Dec 29, 2019 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
A little while ago we wrote about a case called Cape v Dring. It wasn’t a family case at all, in fact it was something to do with asbestos, and the reason we wrote about it was because it dealt with the principles that apply to applications for sight of...
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