by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
On 20 January the Daily Mail headline demanded : ‘Family court judge must explain why pianist jailed, says campaigner’ The campaigner was ex-MP John Hemming. The piano man was, we thought, a father whose protests on social media we had seen before, and in...
by reporting watch team | May 7, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This blog post is about a case which provides a useful discussion point around questions of privacy of information in family cases, and what can and can’t be disclosed about them. It illustrates how unclear things can be. The case is S v SP and CAFCASS [2016]...
by reporting watch team | Apr 27, 2017 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This was the headline in The Brief (Times legal e-newsletter) today. It relates to this case : Middlesbrough Borough Council v M & Ors [2016] EWFC 71 (08 December 2016) Let’s be up front about this : the headline is plain rubbish. Now let’s explain...
by reporting watch team | Apr 18, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
We said we’d re-visit this February 2017 article from the Daily Mail once we had sight of Peter Jackson J’s judgment of his decision not to commit* grandmother Alison Moutiq. *send to prison ⓝⓔⓦ Bedford Borough Council v Moutiq & Ors [2017] EWFC 22 (28 February...
by reporting watch team | Dec 7, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Some time ago we wrote about the case of Mrs Kirk, a woman imprisoned for breaking orders made in the Court of Protection. She had taken an elderly and incapacitated man “M” to a care home in Portugal and refused to bring him back when ordered (or more...
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