by Lucy R | Oct 19, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
Being slightly geeky, we like to follow the minutes of meetings of the Family Procedure Rule Committee, particularly since our request to the committee to consider implementing a legal blogging pilot, the progress of which we were able to track through consecutive (if...
by Malvika Jaganmohan | Oct 14, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
Malvika Jaganmohan is a pupil barrister at Coram Chambers, a specialist family law chambers in London. She tweets as @MalvikaJaganmo1 All paragraph references in bold refer to the judgment which is publicly available on Bailii. Background The case of Foster...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 11, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
HHJ Dancey explains at the outset of this case, Dorset Council v A (Residential Placement: Lack of Resources) [2019] EWFC 62 that he has spoken to A, aged 15, about his intention to ‘tell her story’ and that he is writing the judgment with her and her...
by Emma Nottingham | Oct 7, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
This is a guest post from Transparency Project member, Emma Nottingham and Peta Coulson-Smith (Paediatric Registrar, and Clinical Training Fellow & Senior Teaching Fellow in Clinical Ethics and Law at the University of Southampton). Peta tweets as @drpetacs. This...
by Guest Post | Oct 4, 2019 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We are very pleased to bring this Guest Post very kindly written by Victoria Butler-Cole QC, barrister at 39 Essex Chambers. Victoria tweets at @TorButlerCole We have previously written a post here which gives a brief outline of this case. This post goes into further...
by Emma Nottingham | Oct 2, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In the case of TT, R (On the Application Of) v The Registrar General for England and Wales [2019] EWHC 2384 (Fam) (25 September 2019) the court was asked to determine the definition of ‘mother’ under the law in England and Wales. The individual in the case was...
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