by reporting watch team | Mar 27, 2025 | Consultations
Some news on the much awaited reforms relating to the instruction of unregulated experts in the Family Court: the Family Procedure Rule Committee has launched a consultation on proposed rule changes that are said to tighten the standards for the instruction of expert...
by Julie Doughty | Sep 21, 2024 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
In March, we wrote about a case, West Northamptonshire Council (acting via Northamptonshire Children’s Trust) v KA (Mother & Anor) (Intermediaries) [2024] EWHC 79 (Fam) in which Mrs Justice Lieven had included some general guidance on when an intermediary should...
by reporting watch team | Jun 27, 2024 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
When a child suffers a head injury which medical professionals suspect may be inflicted, safeguarding processes are triggered, often leading to care proceedings and the removal of the child from the care of their parents, usuall y for many months and sometimes...
by Sarah P | Mar 28, 2018 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
C (interim judgment on expert evidence) [2018] EWFC B9 (24 January 2018) This is an ‘ordinary’ family judgment but noteworthy because it shows: The considerable dangers of expert evidence which is not based on clear facts or reliable clinical practice; How...
by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On 10 January, the Daily Mail reported about the alarming case of a baby named Teddy, who was removed from his parents’ care when just six-weeks old, and remained away from them for five months while there was investigation into the causes of bruising on his...
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