Can a spouse claim your abuse or injury damages on divorce?

by Polly Morgan | Jul 20, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The Family Court Reporting Watch has turned up the following – and we’ve been asked on twitter to explain this story too. The Mail Online reports ‘Abuse victim who was handed £175,000 compensation is ordered to give his ex-wife £100,000 of it as part of his divorce...

What is happening now on the case of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard?

by reporting watch team | Jul 18, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We’ve written about Charlie’s case before. This is an update, focusing mainly on recent developments, and recent press coverage and social media comment on the case, much of which has been misleading or poorly informed. The current situation There was a...

Supreme Court ruling on pension discrimination ensures equal treatment for same sex couples

by Polly Morgan | Jul 12, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Today’s Supreme Court decision in Walker v Innospec is a decision that will make a huge difference to married or civilly partnered gay and lesbian couples as they get older. It stops pension schemes from paying the surviving spouse of same-sex married or civilly...

Charlie Gard – What Did The European Court Actually Say and Why?

by Allan Norman | Jul 5, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

As is now well-known, Charlie Gard’s case reached the end of its legal road last week, when the European Court of Human Rights decided that his case, and the case brought on his behalf by his parents, was inadmissible. At the same time, it decided that the...

Charlie Gard Update

by reporting watch team | Jul 2, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We last wrote about the case of Charlie Gard when the European Court was still considering Charlie’s parents’ application. Since then the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have rejected the application as inadmissible (decision here), meaning that the...

An Example Of A McKenzie Friend Who Didn’t Help Anyone

by reporting watch team | Jun 29, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

In the judgment from a case called H (Children : exclusion of Mckenzie friend) [2017] EWFC B31 (05 March 2017), Her Honour Judge Atkinson sets out in detail, why permission to appeal an order banning a paid McKenzie friend from “helping” a mother involved...