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 reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Jo Edwards. Jo is a partner and Head of Family at Forsters solicitors and former Chair of Resolution. She tweets as @MissJoEdwards. “Women are destroying marriage!” screamed a line that caught my eye on Twitter this week. As I...
by Polly Morgan | Sep 12, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There have been a few articles in the newspapers about the latest judgment in Hart v Hart, a long-running case about the financial outcome of Mr and Mrs Hart’s divorce proceedings. Elsewhere on the Transparency Project, Mena Ruparel has criticised the inaccuracy of...
by reporting watch team | Sep 10, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This is a guest post by Mena Ruparel. Mena (@avoidgravity) is a solicitor and co-author of “How to be an ethical solicitor” published by Bath Publishing. On 31 August the Court of Appeal handed down the judgment in the big money case of Mr and Mrs Hart....
by David Burrows | Aug 14, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
‘Open justice’ in family proceedings As a High Court judge (Mostyn J) has commented (in Appleton & Anor v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Anor [2015] EWHC 2689 (Fam), [2016] 2 FLR 1) rights to open justice in family proceedings are a mess; though – sad to...
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