by Polly Morgan | Jul 25, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Owens v Owens is a Supreme Court decision about divorce, specifically about the level of behaviour needed to obtain a divorce on the basis of a spouse’s behaviour. Although we commonly refer to this as ‘unreasonable behaviour’, the proper wording says: ‘That the...
by Polly Morgan | Jul 19, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The hoary chestnut, the ‘meal ticket for life’, has fallen from the media and hit us squarely on the head again. This time, the impetus is a Supreme Court case called Mills v Mills. Back when it reached the Court of Appeal, one of my colleagues here on the...
by Polly Morgan | Jun 30, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There’s been a great deal of misunderstanding and misreporting around Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment about civil partnerships. Civil partnership was introduced by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and is presently open to same-sex couples only. It was therefore a...
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...
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