by Louise Tickle | Oct 28, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Last Wednesday, the Mail and the Sun published an article about a father who had just withdrawn from eight years of family court litigation. This man had been trying to re-establish his relationship with his children. His ex, the judge explained in a published...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 27, 2019 | Resources, Transparency News
Some readers may remember the ‘research-led family justice system’ envisaged in the Norgrove Family Justice Review in 2011. However, we’re still waiting and, as Sir James Munby explained in this interview, family court professionals can sometimes...
by reporting watch team | Oct 23, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Project
This blog post originally appeared as our monthly column in the September 2019 issue of Family Law at [2019] Fam Law 1074(1). New writers join the project team In this month’s column, we feature some contributions by writers who have recently become involved in...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 20, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
TP and TS [2019] EWHC B51 concerns baby twins who had been born prematurely at 31 weeks and who subsequently experienced serious physical trauma that may have been attributable to their parents. The good news is that the court has arrived at a conclusion that the...
by Alice T | Oct 20, 2019 | Transparency News
Cafcass hold two board meetings in public each year to promote transparency, engagement and trust. They normally alternate between topic based and ordinary working board meetings held in public. This time they held back their open meeting to Wednesday 9th...
by Lucy R | Oct 19, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
Being slightly geeky, we like to follow the minutes of meetings of the Family Procedure Rule Committee, particularly since our request to the committee to consider implementing a legal blogging pilot, the progress of which we were able to track through consecutive (if...
by Malvika Jaganmohan | Oct 14, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
Malvika Jaganmohan is a pupil barrister at Coram Chambers, a specialist family law chambers in London. She tweets as @MalvikaJaganmo1 All paragraph references in bold refer to the judgment which is publicly available on Bailii. Background The case of Foster...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 11, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
HHJ Dancey explains at the outset of this case, Dorset Council v A (Residential Placement: Lack of Resources) [2019] EWFC 62 that he has spoken to A, aged 15, about his intention to ‘tell her story’ and that he is writing the judgment with her and her...
by Emma Nottingham | Oct 7, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
This is a guest post from Transparency Project member, Emma Nottingham and Peta Coulson-Smith (Paediatric Registrar, and Clinical Training Fellow & Senior Teaching Fellow in Clinical Ethics and Law at the University of Southampton). Peta tweets as @drpetacs. This...
by Alice T | Oct 4, 2019 | Legal blogging
A further hearing in respect of Olly Sheridan has taken place in the High Court with judgment handed down today. Both parents were represented by experienced lawyers throughout the 10 day hearing, also attended by accredited media representatives and legal bloggers....
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