by Lucy R | Sep 28, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
On 27 August the Express published an article under their ‘crusade’ to ‘End this injustice’ (in family courts). We were concerned that it contained serious inaccuracies and was misleading. We wrote about that in a post on 30 August : The Danger...
by Julie Doughty | Sep 28, 2019 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
As a result of a new Supreme Court judgment, local authorities will no longer be able to offer residential care, with parents’ agreement, to 16 and 17 year olds where they are supervised and not free to leave – unless there is a court order. This decision...
by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | Sep 26, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a post by Annie, one half of our Project Coordination team, author of Surviving Safeguarding; a parents’ guide to the child protection process and a birth parent who has been through several sets of concurrent public and private law proceedings. Annie now...
by reporting watch team | Sep 23, 2019 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in the August 2019 issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 959. As we write this month’s column we are awaiting news of whether the six month long legal blogging pilot that has been...
by Julie Doughty | Sep 20, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The case of Strand Lobben and others v. Norway 37282/13 raises issues about the human rights of birth mothers in adoption proceedings. In the context of all the discussions currently going on about human rights in adoption, it’s disappointing, despite having gone...
by Alice T | Sep 16, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
The Transparency Project was pleased to receive an invitation to this seminar hosted by Rights of Women, which took place on 3rd September in London. I popped along on their behalf. Dashed hopes My hope was that we might glean something of the progress and...
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