by Lucy R | Mar 4, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
In November 2017 Family Rights Group launched an enquiry into the causes of the increasing numbers of children in care and in care proceedings. No doubt there are many such causes. As we noted in September [2017] Fam Law 1048, those causes probably include...
by Julie D | Jan 22, 2018 | Consultations, Events, Trends
On 10 January, I attended a round table meeting arranged in Wales about the Care Crisis Review, which is a short-term enquiry funded by the Nuffield Foundation into the reasons for the rise in numbers of children in care and going through the courts. (A similar...
by Lucy R | Nov 15, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
In August THAT Muslim foster carer story hit the press (‘Christian child forced into foster care’, The Times, 28 August 2017). The Times journalist Andrew Norfolk, lauded for his expose of the Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal, was the subject of...
by Louise Tickle | Oct 16, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Last month, senior BuzzFeed reporter Emily Dugan spent three days at Birmingham’s central family and civil court, researching a fascinating and in-depth article that detailed the effects of legal aid cuts on people who can’t afford a lawyer and who therefore...
by Sarah P | Oct 13, 2017 | Events, Trends
On Monday 9th March 2017 I attended the Nagalro Autumn Conference which examined how children’s voices are heard in court proceedings about them. Nagalro is the Professional Association for children’s guardians, family court advisors and independent social...
by David Burrows | Aug 14, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
‘Open justice’ in family proceedings As a High Court judge (Mostyn J) has commented (in Appleton & Anor v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Anor [2015] EWHC 2689 (Fam), [2016] 2 FLR 1) rights to open justice in family proceedings are a mess; though – sad to...
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