Shamima’s baby – the family law aspect

by reporting watch team | Feb 25, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We’ve started trying to write something about Shamima Begum and her baby several times this week, but every time we agree what we are going to write, something changes. It feels a bit like shifting sands, and the facts are very unclear. So we aren’t going...

Update on the case about missing Olly

by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal bloggers pilot, Notorious

Our Alice Twaite attended a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today, where Mr Justice Williams approved the publication of a press release agreed between various of Olly’s family members, in the hope it will encourage his and his mum’s safe...

Another runaway mum in the news – what’s the story?

by reporting watch team | Jan 6, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Shortly before Christmas reports began to emerge of a young mother who had disappeared with her little boy, and of the High Court Judge who gave permission for the family to be publicly named and photos shown in order to help locate them. At the time we weren’t...

The Sammy Woodhouse Story and Associated Campaigns – An Update

by Lucy R | Dec 1, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

When we first posted on Tuesday about the Sammy Woodhouse story as it appeared in The Times (initially an anonymous story but swiftly identified as a story about Sammy and her son) the only real source of information was The Times itself (and a brief video posted on...

When should I apply for permission not to notify a father about a court case concerning his child?

by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Since the Sammy Woodhouse story first hit the news on Tuesday, the shape of the campaign she has launched for a change in the law relating to the rights of rapist fathers has gone through a number of changes. However, one early call was for guidance on the...

I’d have written that article too

by Louise Tickle | Nov 28, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This is a blog post by Louise Tickle, journalist member of The Transparency Project. It relates to yesterday’s Times article by Andrew Norfolk and the blog post from our chair Lucy Reed that we published yesterday in response, and in which we indicated that we...