That judgment and what people have said about it…

by Lucy R | Jan 24, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This week saw the publication of a judgment by Ms Justice Russell, dealing with an appeal from His Honour Judge Tolson (JH v MF [2020] EWHC 86 (Fam)). It concerned serious problems with how the judge had handled allegations of rape and domestic abuse, in...

“No” means No. – JH v MF

by Guest Post | Jan 23, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This is a guest post by Alexandra Wilson, barrister at 5 St Andrews Hill Chambers. Warning: Please note that quotations from this judgment contain some descriptions of sexual assault and rape. This case, JH v MF [2020] EWHC 86 (Fam) was an appeal from the Central...

Experience as a legal blogger at the Tafida Raqeeb Case

by Emma Nottingham | Dec 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal bloggers pilot, Notorious

This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in Family Law for December 2019 at Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1476. Case background In September, I attended the hearing of the the Tafida Raqeeb case (Raqeeb (by her litigation...

Orphans from Syria

by Lucy R | Nov 27, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Mr Justice Keehan has this week published an extraordinary judgment of a mere 17 staccato paragraphs. It is called Re Orphans From Syria [2019] EWHC 3202 (Fam). It begins : This matter concerns British citizens who were in Syria who are orphans. I made a...

Off to IPSO we go…(hey ho)

by Lucy R | Sep 28, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

On 27 August the Express published an article under their ‘crusade’ to ‘End this injustice’ (in family courts). We were concerned that it contained serious inaccuracies and was misleading. We wrote about that in a post on 30 August : The Danger...

Suspended prison sentence for paralegal who sent family court papers to the wrong judge is ruled unfair

by Julie D | Sep 8, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

UPDATE 16 September: We have now seen the appeal judgment itself and have edited and updated this post. Please scroll to the end of this post for the update. A story appeared in The Times [paywalled] this week: ‘Trainee lawyer unfairly convicted of contempt over...