by reporting watch team | Jun 27, 2024 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
When a child suffers a head injury which medical professionals suspect may be inflicted, safeguarding processes are triggered, often leading to care proceedings and the removal of the child from the care of their parents, usuall y for many months and sometimes...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 13, 2024 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
As we wrote about here, the Government announced in April: ‘Child rapists to automatically have parental responsibility stripped: Vile abusers who rape a child will have their own parental responsibilities automatically removed under new laws.’ However, this...
by reporting watch team | May 8, 2024 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news. MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW MATTERS The Times (£), The...
by Lucy R | May 5, 2024 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
Introduction – the context Since last November it has been possible, in a small number of family courts, for reporters to attend hearings before magistrates in the knowledge that it will most likely be possible to write about what has taken place after the hearing...
by reporting watch team | Apr 4, 2024 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news. MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW MATTERS The Independent (16...
by Paul M | Mar 3, 2024 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Returning to East London Family Court after my first experience of legal blogging under the Reporting Pilot (recently extended to this court), I was able to see another judge at work and to witness yet another happy resolution to what had evidently been a long and...
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