by Julie Doughty | Jan 22, 2018 | Consultations, Events, Trends
On 10 January, I attended a round table meeting arranged in Wales about the Care Crisis Review, which is a short-term enquiry funded by the Nuffield Foundation into the reasons for the rise in numbers of children in care and going through the courts. (A similar...
by reporting watch team | Jan 21, 2018 | Comment, Consultations, Transparency News
That was the name of a seminar organised by the Society of Editors and hosted at the offices of the Telegraph Group in London, on 18 January 2018. But the crisis of the title seemed to have more to do with the state of local journalism and the decline of the local...
by reporting watch team | Jan 20, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
The BBC recently reported that two children were to be adopted ‘as kisses and cuddles [were] not enough’. The use of a direct quotation and the inclusion of the judge’s name in the headline and article, enabled us to locate the judgment in the case...
by reporting watch team | Jan 19, 2018 | FCReportingWatch
This front page headline in The Guardian grabbed attention on 17 November 2017 : ‘Divorcing parents could lose children if they try to turn them against partner. Measures being trialled to prevent “parental alienation” feature penalties including permanent loss of...
by reporting watch team | Jan 15, 2018 | Comment, 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 The Daily Mail/Mail Online, the Sun and...
by reporting watch team | Jan 11, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Byron James, Barrister, Expatriate Law. He tweets as @byron_barrister. Some quarters of the press have behaved so badly recently that passengers are no longer able to buy their wares on Virgin West Coast trains. Unfortunately, the rest of us...
by David Burrows | Jan 9, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Under the headline ‘Jamie and Louise Redknapp’s divorce papers to be kept secret as a judge blocks the release of documents’ the Transparency Project reported last week-end that the Press were complaining a London court had ‘blocked the release of papers that would...
by reporting watch team | Jan 7, 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 The Sun (followed by the Mail) – In...
by Lucy R | Jan 7, 2018 | Analysis, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Family Law publishes a regular blog series by The Transparency Project. This post originally appeared in August 2017 at [2017] Fam Law 908. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher. In the June issue of Family Law at [2017] Fam Law 693 we wrote...
by reporting watch team | Jan 6, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Jo Edwards, who tweets as @MissJoEdwards. Like other fixtures in our diaries at this time of year – Boxing Day sales, gym and diet adverts starting just after Christmas, travel companies enticing us in the depths of winter with promises...
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