by reporting watch team | Apr 23, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, FOI
In March we saw a tweet from someone who had quoted a short extract from this study, which referenced a ‘psychology service’ used by Cafcass in England, and gave some statistics associated with it: namely that : ‘alienation/alienating behaviours was the most selected...
by Malvika Jaganmohan | Oct 8, 2022 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Two judgments caught my eye in the last few weeks, adding to the body of case law relating to the conduct of experts who provide evidence in the family courts. One expert came out pretty well; the other… less so. Let’s start with the positive, shall we? (Warning:...
by Julie D | Aug 4, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
There’s been a lot in the media recently about individual people who are appointed in the family courts to give a professional opinion on relationships where there’s suspected alienation by mothers. This process happens by way of agreeing and commissioning...
by reporting watch team | Apr 29, 2022 | Comment, Transparency News
This article was originally published in Family Law ([2022] Fam Law 422) in April 2022, and is reproduced here with kind permission. In October 2021 the President published a memorandum about experts. In it, Sir Andrew reminded us of four key questions to be asked in...
by Lucy R | Oct 25, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Resources
There has been a lot of discussion recently about experts in the family court, prompted partly as a result of the recent publication of a ‘memorandum’ on the topic by the President of the Family Division, and partly as a result of some recent press...
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