by Judith Townend | Jan 17, 2017 | Comment
The notion that justice must be seen to be done needs little introduction to either a lay or legal audience, but its familiarity belies an underlying complexity. See, for example, PNM v Times Newspapers, to be heard by the Supreme Court this week. The court will...
by reporting watch team | Jan 15, 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 Media reports we...
by Sarah P | Jan 15, 2017 | Events
EDIT 8th MAY 2017 – Conference postponed Sadly we are going to have to postpone until the autumn as we are being overtaken by events, General Elections and other distractions. However, the silver lining to this cloud is that we hope to re-emerge in the autumn,...
by reporting watch team | Jan 12, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The judgment of His Honour Judge Gareth Jones in Re A (A Child) [2016] EWFC B101 (25 August 2016) was recently published on BAILII. Although it is not an authority from a higher court we think it is a good illustration of some important principles, and also contains...
by reporting watch team | Jan 12, 2017 | FCReportingWatch
Saturday’s local Telegraph and Argus report, (‘Union hits out at Council plans to cut foster carers allowances’) of Bradford City Council’s plan to reduce the core child element of their foster care allowances to the government minimum level, triggered twitter...
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...
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