Kindertotenlieder and the limits of transparency

by Barbara Rich | Jul 23, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder was on Radio 3 as I drove across London a week or so ago.  It’s music I’ve always found nearly unbearable to listen to, because it’s about the death of children. The poems Mahler set to music were written by the 19th century German poet...

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...

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...

Correction Requests Update

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

We recently made a further complaint to The Telegraph about Christopher Booker’s coverage of the case of Re H (A Child) (Interim Care Order : fact finding) [2017] EWHC 518 (Fam) on 21 May (you can read the post about that complaint here). We have now heard back...