by Julie Doughty | Oct 26, 2022 | Events, Resources
‘A good law gone bad’ is how the Hague Convention on International Abduction was described in a session organised by the Filia Hague Mothers project at an international feminist conference held in Cardiff over the weekend. The Convention was drafted in...
by Lucy R | Sep 11, 2022 | FCReportingWatch
(Excuse the title for this post. The writer is from Bristol.) When a father who is involved in proceedings concerning his child has been found to have perpetrated domestic abuse against the other parent, the family court will generally look to assess the risk...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 6, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
The judgment in Lee v Brown [2022] 1699 EWHC (QB) has now been published on TNA. We wrote about the case after I attended one day of a hearing on 20 June. This update isn’t going to go into detail on defamation law but will, I hope, explain further why I...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 22, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
This is a post about a defamation trial where one party (the claimant – C) is claiming the other party (the defendant – D) has caused his reputation serious harm by making statements that allege domestic abuse by C against D. Far removed from the recent...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 7, 2022 | FCReportingWatch
Parents who live under the shadow of constant threats by ex-partners of being taken back to court, with repeated applications about their children, will now get more protection from this happening.“Barring orders” is the name commonly given to orders the Family Court...
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