by Julie D | Feb 21, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Over the past few weeks, I attended three online hearings in one case, as a legal blogger. The judge has given me permission to write on it (but more on that, see final paragraphs below). The case was an appeal to a circuit judge, HHJ Levey at Portsmouth Family Court,...
by Julie D | Feb 11, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Trends
We have noticed assumptions that family courts are familar with the terms ‘gaslighting’ and ‘being gaslit’, but is the meaning widely known and understood? A straw poll suggests not. This post will look at the origins of the concept, and its...
by reporting watch team | Jan 23, 2022 | FCReportingWatch
Last week saw publication of two new judgments relating to the child of former MP, Andrew Griffiths, and current MP, Kate Griffiths. Here we summarise what those judgments are about and what they do (or don’t) tell us about matters of principle that might affect...
by Lucy R | Dec 16, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
This post originally appeared on the author’s blog Pink Tape and is reposted here with permission (NB, disclosure : the author is the Chair of The Transparency Project). Most of the newspapers carried the story on Saturday: ‘Andrew Griffiths found to have...
by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is a quote from the website of the UK Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, on the release of ‘Improving the family court response to domestic abuse’, a 29-page report on her work to date on establishing a mechanism to monitor the way allegations of...
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