A new case on the ‘shaken baby’ problem

by Julie Doughty | Oct 20, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

TP and TS [2019] EWHC B51 concerns baby twins who had been born prematurely at 31 weeks and who subsequently experienced serious physical trauma that may have been attributable to their parents. The good news is that the court has arrived at a conclusion that the...

The mystery of the missing Minutes (or… minutes turn into hours and into months…)

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...

No take-backs? The parents who changed their mind about adoption and the local authority who got it very, very wrong

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...

‘The problems are huge’: teenagers in care living in caravan parks

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...

Tafida Raqeeb Judgment Summary: Continuation of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Italy held to be in Child’s Best Interests

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...

The deprivation of liberty for 16 and 17 year olds

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...