by Lucy R | Oct 1, 2020 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch
This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. PART 3 This is a three part blog post. Part 1...
by Lucy R | Oct 1, 2020 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch
This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. PART 2 In Part 1 of this blog series, I talked...
by Lucy R | Oct 1, 2020 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch
This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. I’ve been chewing this one over for a...
by Lucy R | Sep 26, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We wrote last week about a misleading piece in Byline Times about Afsana Lachaux and the family court litigation she had been involved in. We set out a number of serious errors and omissions from that article that overall gave a significantly distorted impression to...
by reporting watch team | Sep 24, 2020 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch
As lawyers and judges become increasingly accustomed to remote hearings, is there a danger of professional complacency about parents’ access to justice? In April, we published the interim results of our survey about remote hearings in the Family Court which we...
by Lucy R | Sep 20, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Stephen Colegrave looks at the case of Afsana Lachaux who is facing the threat of bankruptcy because a British judge upheld Dubai law So goes the headline of a recent article by Byline Times, an independent newspaper which prides itself on being straight and rigorous,...
by Barbara Rich | Sep 19, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This post, by one of our regular writers Barbara Rich, originally appeared on Medium and is reproduced with kind permission. Introduction On Tuesday 15 September 2020, the Court of Appeal gave judgment in R (Delve and Glynn) v. The Secretary of State for...
by Alice T | Sep 15, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
Welcome to this month’s Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS BBC Radio 4 PM and...
by Lucy R | Sep 13, 2020 | FCReportingWatch
When social services are involved with children their parents or extended family are often asked to sign up to a document which is often called a “written agreement“, a “contract of expectations”, a “working agreement” or a “partnership agreement”. Parents are not...
by Lucy R | Aug 30, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
On Friday I took the opportunity to try my hand at a spot more legal blogging. It was the last ‘working’ day before the end of my staycation, and I was somewhat ambivalent about using it up on this busman’s holiday – but in the end decided I was getting rusty, and I’d...
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