Anonymisation Guidance – a curtain of secrecy?

by reporting watch team | Dec 10, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew MacFarlane issued some guidance last week on the anonymisation of published judgments in family court cases. You can read that guidance here. The Daily Mail reported this as follows : Curtain of secrecy should be...

Born of Injustice – how it came to be written

by reporting watch team | Dec 9, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post by Keith Cooper, who is a senior staff writer for The Doctor magazine. Keith kindly agreed to write a post at our request when we saw his extraordinary writing about a family court case, and realised that a huge amount of work must have gone into...

Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by reporting watch team | Dec 9, 2018 | FCReportingWatch

Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Times -The launch of Sammy...

Making sense of parental alienation (Part 2)

by reporting watch team | Dec 5, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch

In Part 1 of this blog post, we provided an update on policy and practice regarding issues of parental alienation. Re D [2018] EWFC B64 is a very lengthy (64 pages) fact-finding judgment by HHJ Clifford Bellamy in Chesterfield Family Court, delivered on 19 October. As...

Making sense of parental alienation (Part 1)

by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

It is now a year since The Guardian published startling claims that Cafcass (in England) were introducing new polices and practice guidance that would ‘crack down’ on parents who were guilty of manipulating their children through ‘parental alienation’. It soon...