by reporting watch team | Dec 11, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES The Daily...
by Lucy R | Dec 11, 2016 | Events
The Manchester Centre for Law in Society and the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre are holding a Family Law Conference on 4 March 2017 (10am – 4pm). Speakers : Rebecca Probert, Warwick University ‘The women who did: feminism, free love & freedom’...
by reporting watch team | Dec 11, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
Since we launched our Family Court Reporting Watch we’ve been trying to work out the best way to achieve the desired results – better reporting of family law and cases in the family courts. It’s been a bit of a learning curve and we’re...
by Paul M | Dec 10, 2016 | Comment, Consultations
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport is currently running a consultation on the future of press regulation. But how genuine is the consultation? Will they really take any notice of the responses, or is it just an opportunity for the powerful mainstream media to...
by reporting watch team | Dec 8, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
Re W (Adoption: Contact) [2016] EWHC 3118 (Fam) is a family court decision by Cobb J in the High Court. The judgment explaining this decision has just been published. The case This was the re hearing of a decision about whether a (by then) 2 and a half year old girl...
by reporting watch team | Dec 7, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Some time ago we wrote about the case of Mrs Kirk, a woman imprisoned for breaking orders made in the Court of Protection. She had taken an elderly and incapacitated man “M” to a care home in Portugal and refused to bring him back when ordered (or more...
by Paul M | Dec 4, 2016 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, Transparency News
This week the Court of Protection, sitting in Manchester, has been hearing a case about a policeman, Paul Briggs, whose wife, Lindsey Briggs has applied to the court for withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment (the feeding tube) that she no longer believes is in her...
by reporting watch team | Dec 4, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family court cases; Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family court cases; Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES The Guardian...
by reporting watch team | Dec 1, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
Gloucestershire County Council v M & Ors is a recently published case where a family court judge at circuit judge level applied routine, established law to the particular circumstances of a 9 month old baby boy and his vulnerable young mother. Through no fault of...
by Sarah P | Nov 30, 2016 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On November 15th 2016 a documentary aired on French television called ‘England’s Stolen Children’. ‘Researching Reform’ provided comment and a useful translation of the explanation of the programme’s contents. If your French is...
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