by reporting watch team | Apr 3, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
[Update 6 April 2017: The BBC report that Samantha Baldwin and the children have been found safely. There is no further information available at present and we now expect things to go quiet in terms of information coming from the police / Family Court, at least for a...
by Sarah P | Mar 31, 2017 | Resources
The Family Rights Group have developed a website to support young parents whose children are deemed ‘at risk’, in care or adopted. The site aims to share legal and practical information to help more young mothers and fathers and young parents-to-be to keep...
by reporting watch team | Mar 29, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
MP Suella Fernandes has written a plea for wide ranging reform of family law in The Times (paywall) : Why family law needs reform now She asks for reform of the law in terms of child arrangements when parents separate, asking for better enforcement, a 3...
by reporting watch team | Mar 27, 2017 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published Judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES ...
by reporting watch team | Mar 26, 2017 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Radio 4 covered the topic of transparency last week, following publication of research by Cardiff University about the impact of the 2014 guidance on publication of judgments. Both Chair Lucy Reed and Dr Doughty (one of the researchers and a member of TP) featured....
by reporting watch team | Mar 25, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Actually, the first of those is a misnomer – as we explored in an earlier post the law on divorce in England & Wales requires behaviour (maybe unreasonable, maybe not) on the one part of a spouse that means it is unreasonable to now expect the other to...
by reporting watch team | Mar 23, 2017 | Transparency News
The research, led by Dr Julie Doughty of Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics, examines how the Transparency Guidance on publication of family court judgments has taken effect since February 2014 and its impact. Summary Here is a helpful four page...
by reporting watch team | Mar 21, 2017 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published Judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES The...
by reporting watch team | Mar 17, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
Before new guidance from February 2014 (the Transparency Guidance), it was extremely rare for a judgment from a ‘routine’ family court case, outside of the High Court, raising no point of particular legal interest, to be placed in the public domain by being published...
by Lucy R | Mar 16, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We wrote about Christopher Booker’s recent piece : In Britain’s secretive family courts, the lawyers always win, in a blog post : Just add this one to the pile… We’ve now followed this up with a complaint to The Telegraph via their complaints...
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