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...
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...
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