by Allan Norman | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Introduction: #AlfiesArmy v #ImWithAlderHey – an unbridgeable divide? Alfie’s life, his legal battles, and his death, have polarised opinion. Decent people on both sides of the debate have been able to acknowledge how awful it must be to be in this situation –...
by Polly Morgan | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
By now, we all know the terrible story of Alfie Evans, who spent 16 months of his two years of life in hospital as his brain turned to water and cerebral spinal fluid and who died following the removal of life sustaining ventilation. I say ‘we all know’, but the...
by reporting watch team | May 12, 2018 | Transparency News
Our three trustees have been working hard for the last few months writing a book all about transparency. It has just been published by Bloomsbury. The book is aimed primarily at professionals working in family courts. You can get a 15% discount on the book by quoting...
by Lucy R | May 12, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the April 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 464 On 15 February 2018, The Transparency Project began a dialogue about the use of language by professionals who...
by reporting watch team | May 12, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
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 The Telegraph and the Times – We...
by Polly Morgan | May 10, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Both the Telegraph and the Times have the same story this week, including that hoary old chestnut the ‘meal ticket for life’, and the suggestion that women get divorced for the money and if the money’s not good they don’t get divorced. ‘Lower payouts put wives...
by reporting watch team | May 4, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Yesterday the Guardian published Louise Tickle’s hard hitting opinion piece about failures of Herefordshire Council with the headline : The state has a terrible secret: it kidnaps our children. Unsurprisingly it has generated a lot of comment. With familiar...
by reporting watch team | Apr 30, 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 Alfie Evans – We’ve drawn...
by Sarah P | Apr 29, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This photograph is from an article in Wired ‘How Facebooks Fake News fix made the Alfie Evans story go viral’ The sad case of Alfie Evans has attracted world wide attention in the last few days. There is a useful summary of the last year on the BBC...
by reporting watch team | Apr 26, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last year The Times ran a number of leading articles criticising the arrangements for the care of a young girl placed in foster care by Tower Hamlets council, with a focus on the religious background and practices of the foster carer and their ability to speak...
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