Bell v Tavistock in the High Court: an explainer

by reporting watch team | Dec 9, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Last week, the High Court handed down the judgment in the highly publicised case of Bell v Tavistock (R (Quincy Bell) and A  v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, and others [2020] EWHC 3274).  In this blog post, compiled by several members of the TP team, we...

‘Eastenders’ and domestic abuse

by Guest Post | Oct 14, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

‘Eastenders’ and domestic abuse This is a post by Yanoulla Kakoulli. Yanoulla is an experienced family law solicitor practising  at Pinney Talfourd LLP, which has a tier 1 Legal 500 family team. She has also volunteered as a family law advisor for...

Of a piece…

by Lucy R | Sep 26, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We wrote last week about a misleading piece in Byline Times about Afsana Lachaux and the family court litigation she had been involved in. We set out a number of serious errors and omissions from that article that overall gave a significantly distorted impression to...

296 days to correct a factual inaccuracy – effective press regulation?

by reporting watch team | Jun 18, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

296 days ago, on 27 August 2019, the Daily Express published an inaccurate article in the print edition of their paper. Today they have published a correction because the regulator IPSO required this. For those who are interested, we saved the original Express article...

Journalists persuade Judge to change his mind and name criticised local authority

by Lucy R | May 20, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We wrote about this case last week. We said ‘watch this space’ : To name or not to name – that is the question Now, we bring you part two… The judge has changed his mind after the intervention of two journalists : our own Louise Tickle and...

Remote hearings: a gulf between lawyers and lay parties?

by Malvika Jaganmohan | Mar 29, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

In the last two weeks, the family justice system has been plunged into the deep end. Family lawyers, judges and court staff have been grappling with varied forms of technology to transition cases online as quickly as possible during the coronavirus crisis. Inevitably,...