by Lucy R | Sep 12, 2021 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
PART 4 COMMENT This is the fourth and final part of a four part blog series. Part 1 is here, and links to parts 2 and 3. Reminder : To ensure that the child and family are not identified I am not allowed to reveal whether the child is a boy or a girl, but to make the...
by Polly Morgan | Aug 17, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Her Honour Judge Vincent is known for publishing her judgments. Whether they relate to children disputes, child protection and care proceedings or – as here in JB v MB [2020] EWFC B69 – financial provision on divorce, they are always clearly written and easy to...
by Jack Harrison | Jul 16, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
At the beginning of this year, I wrote a short post which tried to explain the increasingly troublesome area of Deprivation of Liberty in an accessible way. It is, in effect, the power of the High Court under its ancient powers of protection to authorise that a child...
by Emma Nottingham | Jun 26, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
On 23 and 24 June 2021, the Court of Appeal heard the appeal of Bell v Tavistock. The hearing was live streamed on YouTube. At the time of writing, the videos are still available online and can be found here. We reported on the judgment of the lower court at the end...
by reporting watch team | Jun 24, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last week, the Court of Appeal heard yet another case where a birth parent was trying to get an adoption order set aside. The three children in Re I-A are, unusually but very fortunately, all living together in one adoptive family, following care and placement orders...
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