Accuracy enthusiasts ban dodgy headlines – journalist blasts sub-editors for lie that made it around the world before the truth had got its boots on

by Louise Tickle | Oct 28, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

Last Wednesday, the Mail and the Sun published an article about a father who had just withdrawn from eight years of family court litigation. This man had been trying to re-establish his relationship with his children. His ex, the judge explained in a published...

I call humbug

by Louise Tickle | Mar 12, 2019 | Cases, Comment

This blog post originally appeared in the February 2019 issue, [2019] Fam Law 122. Whatever you think of the media, journalists’ mistakes couldn’t be more visible. If we get a fact wrong, the evidence is there in black and white. If we write an article...

‘Sensationalist’ ‘provocative’ and ‘unhelpful’ – why I was prepared to say in a national newspaper that our state kidnaps children

by Louise Tickle | Feb 12, 2019 | Cases, Comment

This blog post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 1375. ‘Abduction: (legal use) The illegal removal of a child from its parents or guardians.’ ‘Kidnap: Abduct (someone) and hold them captive, typically to obtain a...

I’d have written that article too

by Louise Tickle | Nov 28, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This is a blog post by Louise Tickle, journalist member of The Transparency Project. It relates to yesterday’s Times article by Andrew Norfolk and the blog post from our chair Lucy Reed that we published yesterday in response, and in which we indicated that we...

When a journalist comes to court – lower those hackles

by Louise Tickle | Oct 12, 2018 | Comment

This blog post originally appeared in the August 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 957. Criminal courts are open to all, and lawyers barely bother to glance up when a reporter shuffles into the press bench. Decide to drop by a family court, though – which in almost all...