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Can I object to a legal blogger (or journalist) coming into my hearing?

by reporting watch team | Oct 3, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal bloggers pilot

Yes. But just because you object doesn’t necessarily mean no journalist or blogger will be allowed in. This post explains what the court rules and other law say about when journalists (or bloggers) may be excluded. If you know wish to object to the attendance of...

Inaugural Legal Blogging Day

by Lucy R | Oct 2, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal bloggers pilot

Yesterday, 1 October, was the first day of the new legal bloggers pilot. Having spent many hours persuading the powers that be that this was a good idea to try out, it seemed like the done thing to be there on Day One. So, shortly before 10am I trotted from Chambers...

14-year-old instructs his own solicitor in care proceedings

by reporting watch team | Sep 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The Times published a story on 13 September under the headline, ‘Judge lets 14-year-old boy choose his own lawyer’. The judgment is on BAILII here – Re Z (A Child: Care Proceedings: Separate Representation) [2018] EWFC B57. We don’t know why the Times has not...

Plenty of fish, too little caviar

by Barbara Rich | Aug 21, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Burki v. Seventy Thirty Ltd, Seventy Thirty Ltd v. Burki [2018] EWHC 2151 (QB) A recent High Court judgment offers a vivid glimpse into the real-life world of “Wry Society”, a regular feature in the Financial Times How to Spend Itmagazine, which holds a mirror up to...

Leaving the country to evade care proceedings – how does the court in England & Wales get your children back?

by reporting watch team | Aug 14, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Hampshire County Council v C.E. and N.E. (Urgent preliminary ruling procedure – Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in matters of parental responsibility – Opinion) [2018] EUECJ C-325/18PPU_O (07 August 2018) Introduction The following...

‘Habitual Residence’ – sloppy explanations of the law about child abduction

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

We have been alerted to some less than perfect summaries of the law around international child abduction by the BBC recently. When a child is abducted to a foreign country away from their other parent, two things are a given: emotions will be running high and the law...