by reporting watch team | Jul 23, 2018 | FCReportingWatch
This week in the House of Commons, during a debate about Domestic Abuse and the Family Courts, Jess Phillips MP said this : …There is often friction among specialist women’s organisations, the judiciary and lawyers with regard to issues to do with violence...
by Paul M | Jul 22, 2018 | Consultations, Transparency News
At the beginning of June the Transparency Project submitted written evidence to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee‘s Transforming courts and tribunals inquiry. (You can read our summary of all the written evidence here.) The PAC’s inquiry was prompted by a...
by Polly Morgan | Jul 19, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The hoary chestnut, the ‘meal ticket for life’, has fallen from the media and hit us squarely on the head again. This time, the impetus is a Supreme Court case called Mills v Mills. Back when it reached the Court of Appeal, one of my colleagues here on the...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 18, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
“Parents with parental responsibility always have a qualified right to object and an unqualified right to remove their children at will (subject to any court orders about where the child is to live). Section 20 gives local authorities no compulsory powers over...
by reporting watch team | Jul 16, 2018 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES BBC News and the Telegraph – We...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 12, 2018 | FCReportingWatch
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the June 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 750. In this month’s column, we consider some issues about newspaper coverage of family courts and the wider context of...
by reporting watch team | Jul 9, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Twitter commentators asked questions last week of a BBC headline: Thousands misusing abuse orders to get legal aid, says parenting charity And the ‘click-bait’ opening sentence of the story itself: Families Need Fathers says parents are being encouraged...
by reporting watch team | Jul 2, 2018 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES Sky and BBC News – Wrongly suggested...
by Polly Morgan | Jun 30, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There’s been a great deal of misunderstanding and misreporting around Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment about civil partnerships*. Civil partnership was introduced by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and is presently open to same-sex couples only. It was therefore a...
by reporting watch team | Jun 26, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Families Need Fathers have issued a press release, welcoming ideas put forward by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the incoming President of the Family Division, in a keynote address at their conference on the theme of restoring confidence in family justice, held on 23 June. The...
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