by Lucy R | Jan 11, 2017 | Comment, Events
We have been in dialogue with Women’s Aid about assertions made by them that family courts frequently breach PD12J (practice direction in the Family Courts concerning domestic abuse) by allowing victims to be cross examined by their abusers. We wanted to...
by reporting watch team | Jan 9, 2017 | FCReportingWatch
The headline and sub-header “Three sisters whose parents didn’t give them names are taken into care”; “Judge Sarah Lynch said the youngest girl – aged four months – had been registered just by her surname.” This was the headline and sub-header used...
by reporting watch team | Jan 9, 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 | Jan 7, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, 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 (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Times and the Telegraph – Polly...
by Julie Doughty | Jan 4, 2017 | Comment
We are hearing a lot this week about the virtues of the free press, but some journalists never seem to tire of advocating social engineering and labelling children as either demons or angels (rather than individual human beings). This blog post is about four recent...
by reporting watch team | Jan 2, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The Telegraph reported just before Christmas that : Millionaire seeks greater share in divorce because he is a ‘genius’, prompting court to examine the meaning of the word The case is one involving a multimillionaire financier who is unhappy with...
by reporting watch team | Jan 2, 2017 | FCReportingWatch
Weekly Round Up 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 The Daily Mail...
by Guest Post | Jan 1, 2017 | Comment
This is a guest post written by social worker Maggie Mellon, in response to blog posts by Sarah Phillimore previously published on this blog here and here. As with Sarah’s posts, this post is a comment piece and represents the views of the author, not...
by reporting watch team | Dec 30, 2016 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
“Certain family court hearings to take place in public in radical trial” claimed the Guardian headline on the night before Christmas Eve. “James Munby, head of high court’s family division, to continue far-reaching reforms to bring more transparency to the system”...
by Sarah P | Dec 29, 2016 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
INTRODUCTION This is a post divided into two parts. The first part is a summary of my analysis of the French documentary ‘England’s Stolen Children’ which first aired in France in November 2016. The second part is my attempt to transcribe it. The producer sent...
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