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....
by Guest Post | Oct 4, 2019 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We are very pleased to bring this Guest Post very kindly written by Victoria Butler-Cole QC, barrister at 39 Essex Chambers. Victoria tweets at @TorButlerCole We have previously written a post here which gives a brief outline of this case. This post goes into further...
by Emma Nottingham | Oct 2, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In the case of TT, R (On the Application Of) v The Registrar General for England and Wales [2019] EWHC 2384 (Fam) (25 September 2019) the court was asked to determine the definition of ‘mother’ under the law in England and Wales. The individual in the case was...
by Paul M | Oct 1, 2019 | Comment, Transparency News, Trends
For all practical purposes, the free legal database run by the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is an official source of judgments from senior courts that any member of the public or any journalist can use. But while anyone can read individual...
by Lucy R | Sep 28, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
On 27 August the Express published an article under their ‘crusade’ to ‘End this injustice’ (in family courts). We were concerned that it contained serious inaccuracies and was misleading. We wrote about that in a post on 30 August : The Danger...
by Julie Doughty | Sep 28, 2019 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
As a result of a new Supreme Court judgment, local authorities will no longer be able to offer residential care, with parents’ agreement, to 16 and 17 year olds where they are supervised and not free to leave – unless there is a court order. This decision...
by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | Sep 26, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a post by Annie, one half of our Project Coordination team, author of Surviving Safeguarding; a parents’ guide to the child protection process and a birth parent who has been through several sets of concurrent public and private law proceedings. Annie now...
by reporting watch team | Sep 23, 2019 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in the August 2019 issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 959. As we write this month’s column we are awaiting news of whether the six month long legal blogging pilot that has been...
by Julie Doughty | Sep 20, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The case of Strand Lobben and others v. Norway 37282/13 raises issues about the human rights of birth mothers in adoption proceedings. In the context of all the discussions currently going on about human rights in adoption, it’s disappointing, despite having gone...
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