by Lucy R | Nov 6, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
As it happens I wasn’t, and the lawyer who asked me this had assumed wrongly. I was attending court just to see what was on that day, and to use the legal blogging pilot to try to report a typical day in the life of a circuit judge. But I’d stumbled upon a...
by Lucy R | Nov 6, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
This post is about a hearing I attended recently as a legal blogger. I wrote about the overall experience that day here. This hearing was a case management hearing in a care case. Although such cases are private and I would not normally be permitted to write publicly...
by Lucy R | Nov 6, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Recently I found myself with a day free of hearings or pressing work, and decided to spend it legal blogging. The night before the hearing I took a look at the court lists, and identified one with several shortish hearings that (based on the case number and...
by Julie Doughty | Nov 1, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
As part of the decision made by the President of the Family Division in the appeal by TP member, Louise Tickle in February, Sir Andrew McFarlane stated that guidance to courts would need to be issued to address the uncertainty that existed if a journalist or legal...
by Louise Tickle | Oct 28, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Last Wednesday, the Mail and the Sun published an article about a father who had just withdrawn from eight years of family court litigation. This man had been trying to re-establish his relationship with his children. His ex, the judge explained in a published...
by reporting watch team | Oct 23, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Project
This blog post originally appeared as our monthly column in the September 2019 issue of Family Law at [2019] Fam Law 1074(1). New writers join the project team In this month’s column, we feature some contributions by writers who have recently become involved in...
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