by Lucy R | Dec 24, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
This is a roundup with a difference – it’s a review of all things transparency in 2019. There’s a lot of ground to cover! In the new year we’re hoping to bring back our regular Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup, where we correct, clarify and...
by Emma Nottingham | Dec 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in Family Law for December 2019 at Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1476. Case background In September, I attended the hearing of the the Tafida Raqeeb case (Raqeeb (by her litigation...
by Lucy R | Dec 20, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane (that’s ‘Top Judge’ to you), has sent us his Christmas letter. Adopting the traditional format of the ‘View from the President’s Chambers’, Sir Andrew tackles a number of...
by Polly Morgan | Dec 16, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
On 9 and 10 December 2019, the Supreme Court – Lady Hale, Lord Kerr, Lord Wilson, Lady Black, Lord Sales – heard an appeal between Charles Villiers (‘a relative of the Duchess of Cornwall’: The Times) and his wife Emma Villiers (‘the sort of person who had...
by Lucy R | Dec 13, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last week Mr Justice Baker (now Lord Justice Baker) published three judgments from care proceedings, naming the parents of a child known as Q. Q had suffered a range of injuries, including rib fractures and head injuries, and those injuries had been inflicted by one...
by Lucy R | Dec 7, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
His Honour Judge Dancey has published a judgment in which he explains why he has decided that social services have failed to prove that either parent caused a skull fracture sustained by their baby, with the result that the baby is going home. The judge decided that...
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