by Polly Morgan | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
By now, we all know the terrible story of Alfie Evans, who spent 16 months of his two years of life in hospital as his brain turned to water and cerebral spinal fluid and who died following the removal of life sustaining ventilation. I say ‘we all know’, but the...
by Polly Morgan | May 10, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Both the Telegraph and the Times have the same story this week, including that hoary old chestnut the ‘meal ticket for life’, and the suggestion that women get divorced for the money and if the money’s not good they don’t get divorced. ‘Lower payouts put wives...
by Polly Morgan | Jan 24, 2018 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
I’m sorry to report that today’s Daily Mail article ‘The tick box divorce: Couples will fill in new ten-page online form detailing money and assets they want under plans to streamline the system’ is (to use a technical legal term) totes nonsense. I exaggerate. The...
by Polly Morgan | Jan 24, 2018 | Analysis, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There was an interesting article in The Times last week, ‘Is there such a thing as a good divorce? (paywall), written by Grania Langdon-Down. It was a bit of a hodge-podge of different concepts, but one bit I did find interesting was the suggestion that courts are...
by Polly Morgan | Dec 8, 2017 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Times and The Telegraph are reporting that new courts are being established to deal with the financial side of divorces for the wealthy. ‘Divorce courts for super-rich win cautious welcome from lawyers’ is The Times’ headline; The Telegraph has ‘New courts planned...
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