The Domestic Abuse appeals – a missed opportunity for cultural change?

by Guest Post | Apr 2, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This is a guest post from Olive Craig. Olive is senior legal officer at Rights of Women. She is a qualified family law solicitor specialising in children law and legal aid. Rights of Women is a legal charity that provides free, confidential legal advice to women in...

Domestic Abuse Conjoined Appeals – update

by reporting watch team | Mar 28, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

There is still no decision from the Court of Appeal on the conjoined domestic abuse appeals that we wrote about in February. The Court of Appeal considers Domestic Abuse – Part 1 However, we did notice two judgments from HHJ Tolson published on Friday –...

Should a journalist be able to see all the court papers behind a flawed decision that a child should be adopted? Marshalling the arguments

by Alice T | Mar 11, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News

Last week the Court of Appeal heard journalist Melanie Newman’s appeal against an order against disclosure of the court papers behind a flawed decision that a young child should be adopted (subsequently overturned by the Court of Appeal with the child going home). I...

The PPE procurement case: transparency missed in both politics and law

by Paul M | Feb 23, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, Notorious, Transparency News

Last week the High Court made a widely publicised decision declaring that a government minister and his department had acted unlawfully in relation to the award of PPE procurement contracts in the early weeks of the pandemic. The case is called R (Good Law Project and...

The Court of Appeal considers Domestic Abuse – Part 3

by Lucy R | Jan 29, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal bloggers pilot, Notorious

This is part 3 of a series of posts about the four conjoined appeals. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. This post tackles the wider issues of principle that were considered in the course of the appeals, and at the end will provide some materials for further...

The Court of Appeal considers Domestic Abuse – Part 2

by Lucy R | Jan 24, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal bloggers pilot, Notorious

This is part 2 of a series of posts about the conjoined appeals. You can read part 1 here. This post summarises the individual issues in the four appeals. Part 3 will cover the wider issues of principle and some of the themes that emerged in the course of the hearing,...