It’s the tail end of summer, the cusp of back to school season. Every time one lawyer meets another they must ask the obligatory question: ‘Have you managed to have a break yet?’ Some say ‘Yes’, before going on to
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People will always need plates
If you are as old as me you will remember what this is quoting. If you are not, here it is. It came from a time when adverts were an art form in themselves, a little microcosm of society,
Left hand, meet right hand (or: when you are as old as me there is nothing new in the world…)
I was 52 last week, so I suppose that since I’ve had twice as many times around the sun as there are supposed to be weeks in two generations worth of care proceedings, it’s unsurprising if I feel like everything
A post script – what about the mother’s lawyer?
In An observation of a domestic abuse fact finding hearing – a worrying vignette (over on the Transparency Project website) I wrote about what unfolded during a family court hearing I observed as a ‘legal blogger’.
About time too…
The title of this post relates not to the shockingly long interregnum since my last, but to the news in today (via Jaime Craig, psychologist and member of the Family Justice Council) that the long heralded adjustments to
Wading through the Grey Goo
Prince Charles (as he then was) once popularised the phrase ‘grey goo’ (Explained and Americanised by Wikipedia as ‘gray goo’). He wasn’t actually talking about AI but about nanobots. AI was merely a twinkle in a tech-bro’s eye
What even IS Pink Tape?
Every time I have to explain to a youthful colleague what something now defunct was and how it used to work, I feel a little bit older…
This week I thought someone was mistakenly evangelical about the new marketing idea
QLRs – what do the published judgments tell us?
Since judgments arising from the Family Court are not routinely published, what we see in them isn’t necessarily representative of patterns within the Family Court as a whole. But they are one useful source of at least some information about
We have survived January! Rejoice!
It really was a loooong month, wasn’t it? Death, storms, and the general dank gloom that comes with this time of year. We escaped actual flooding or storm damage here, but it’s not far from us. Quite apart from the
What’s the difference between a barrister and a solicitor (version 2.0)
in August 2007 right at the start of Pink Tape, I wrote a post called ‘What’s the difference between a barrister and a solicitor?’
Although that post is almost 20 years old it remains one of the all time most