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Three examples of how not to do family justice
This week involves a trio of disastrous cases where things have gone wrong and judges have explained why. The first case is Re L (A Child) [2017] EWHC 3707 (Fam) (22 December 2017), which opens with Mr Justice Francis saying : At some point during the night of a...
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Meal ticket for life bid backfires – or does it?
The Telegraph is one of a number of newspapers to report on the decision of the Court of Appeal to refuse the appeal of Mrs Waggott asking for an increase in her divorce award, and to allow the appeal of Mr Waggot, asking for the duration of her maintenance award to...
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Journalism, Judges and Justice – a crisis in court reporting?
A report on Open Justice from the Chartered Institute of Journalists warns of “an unprecedented, and sustained, attack on the journalism profession, which has taken a toll on our ability to cover courts, and report on their function”. Its author is Tim Crook, Vice...
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The responsible use of attachment assessments for court
This is a guest post by Rebecca Carr-Hopkins and Tracy Rydin-Orwin (ICI trainers) and Andrea Landini (Director, Family ReIations Institute). They are responding to our post on the case of Re C [2018] EWFC B9, where a psychologist's evidence was based on a clinical...
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Why doesn’t the family court punish professionals who break the rules?
On March 25th we considered what happened to people who refused to abide by orders made by the family courts and the powers family courts have to send them to prison in punishment. That blog post prompted comments along the lines of what happened when the...
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Why the Court of Protection gave permission for blood samples to be taken in Skripal poisoning case
The alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy now living in England, and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury earlier this month has been prominently reported in the news. Investigations into the nature of the military-grade nerve agent allegedly used on...
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Flying under the Radar: Experiencing the Court of Protection Transparency Pilot as an academic researcher
This is a guest post by Gillian Loomes, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds Law School Earlier this year, I spent a month attending hearings in the Court of Protection (CoP) as a public observer. This was part of my PhD (a socio-legal study examining how the...
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Re Nichol: an unsent text message as a valid will
UPDATE 18 October - I've added a footnote to discuss some points which have been raised in Twitter conversations following my original post. On 11 October 2017, this headline appeared on the BBC news website. The story naturally aroused a lot of interest and...
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