by reporting watch team | Oct 30, 2016 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The press reported this week that an appeal involving Essex County Council was the first to be routed through the High Court, under new rules that have diverted some appeals from the Court of Appeal to High Court judges as a result of the Court of Appeal having an...
by reporting watch team | Oct 29, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
• Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family court cases • Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family cases • Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES The Sun followed the Mirror in...
by reporting watch team | Oct 26, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
The Children And Social Work Bill is going through Parliament at present. It has been controversial due to parts which some have said would allow social services to be privatised and which could remove current safeguards. This post is about another aspect of the Bill,...
by Sarah P | Oct 23, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The recent decisions of Hayden J concerning a 7 year old boy, whose mother insisted he wished to be raised as a girl, set out a wide variety of the issues that concern the Transparency Project and which have provoked strong emotion for many readers. a complicated set...
by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Court of Appeal has clarified the question of how courts should deal with cases where one parent takes a child to live in a distant part of the country without the agreement of the other. The case is Re R (Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 1016 (20 October 2016) and the full...
by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
• Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family cases • Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family cases • Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES: ‘Judge orders boy, seven, to...
by reporting watch team | Oct 21, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This week Christopher Booker, chose this as his topic for his Sunday Telegraph column : The terrifying tale of how Britain’s most secret court imprisoned a grandmother This is of course a very worrying headline. The article itself is also likely to...
by reporting watch team | Oct 20, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
There have been four adverts for adoptive parents for children in the Mirror this week with another due tomorrow for ‘National Adoption Week’. They are here: ‘Will you be my forever parents?’ Heartbreaking story of boy who wants to be adopted’;...
by Paul M | Oct 17, 2016 | Comment, Transparency News
There are many things wrong with the way the national press reports legal matters, especially matters relating to the Family Court and the Court of Protection. But they are not going to get better unless and until the so-called regulator, IPSO, takes firmer action to...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 15, 2016 | Cases, Court of Protection
In the words of the song, the ‘secret’ Court of Protection is ‘no secret anymore’ because since January 2016, hearings are held in open court, unless the circumstances are exceptional. Applications for committal for contempt are always held in...
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