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Misreporting the misreporting – that foster care case again

Misreporting the misreporting – that foster care case again

by reporting watch team | Sep 5, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We’ve written about the so-called “muslim foster care case” already (here and here). We’ve been somewhat critical of the coverage by The Times. But we are a little concerned that some of the criticism we have seen of media reports, particularly...
Primacy of children’s interests in the publicity debate

Primacy of children’s interests in the publicity debate

by David Burrows | Aug 29, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Transparency News

Freedom of expression: are children’s interests ‘paramount’?   In her update on transparency on the Transparency Project blog ‘Lucy R’  raised what has been said by Sir James Munby P: that ‘the interests of the child are NOT paramount on questions of...

Religious and cultural identity in foster care

by Sarah P | Aug 28, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

On 28th August 2017 The Times published a story about a white Christian  child ‘forced’ into a (presumably) brown skinned Muslim family The prominent placement of this report on the front page with its eerie image of the little white girl being led away by...
Statistics and headlines in legal news: controlling the surges

Statistics and headlines in legal news: controlling the surges

by Barbara Rich | Aug 25, 2017 | Comment

A few months ago, Paul Magrath wrote a post on the figures behind the Daily Telegraph’s headline “financial abuse rockets as more powers of attorney challenged by courts”, showing that the rocket turned out to be a very small damp squib. The subject of that post...
Family Court judge accused of misfeasance in public office by social worker he criticised

Family Court judge accused of misfeasance in public office by social worker he criticised

by reporting watch team | Aug 18, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This is a sad and unsatisfactory story. In November last year, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal brought by an unnamed social worker and an unnamed police officer against findings of an unnamed judge against them. The unusual feature of the case was that neither...
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