by Guest Post | Jun 29, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Charlotte John. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep.” Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Last year saw an abundant crop of “proprietary estoppel” disputes between...
by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | Jun 26, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
[COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED] This is a post by “Annie”, one half of our Project Coordination team at the Transparency Project. Annie is a birth mum who has experienced several sets of public and private law proceedings including a new-born removal, and that...
by Malvika Jaganmohan | Jun 26, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a first post from Malvika Jaganmohan, one of our new contributors. Malvika tweets as @MalvikaJaganmo1 Any family lawyer will tell you that finding a competent independent expert who can report in a timely manner is the Holy Grail of the family justice...
by Lucy R | Jun 24, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
The press love a story about out of touch judges – think ‘Who are The Beatles?’. And so with this headline in the Mail Online : ‘Technophobe’ judges delay £1.2bn justice system reforms as plan to use new software in family court hearings...
by reporting watch team | Jun 23, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Project
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the May 2019 issue of Family Law at [2019] Fam Law 563. I consider it a great honour to have been invited to be the Patron of The Transparency Project. It is only just over 4 years ago that the Transparency...
by Emma Nottingham | Jun 22, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and M (Acting by her Children’s Guardian) and OA In the recent case of Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v OA , the court had to decide the fate of a 13-month-old-girl, known as M,...
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