Karma-ing right back at ya

It may have been good from the perspective of my client that I managed to completely dismantle the evidence of an inexperienced expert witness in the space of 10 minutes of extraordinary cross examination (more due to the extraordinary answers than the brilliance of my questions it should be said) and it may have been [...]

technobabble

on request I have added a recent comments box on the sidebar. those of you who want to track comments can also (I think) click on the comments feed at the top right of the home page to track comments. hope that helps. PS Thanks to John at Family Lore for pointing out the obvious [...]

Family Lore (and others) have posted in support of the Oxford Union inviting Irving and Griffin to speak. I agree. I once attended an NUS conference where the ‘No Platform Policy’ was enforced in ridiculous circumstances against Peter Hitchens when, in order to clear the way for his speaking topic he opened by acknowledging that [...]

Justices Reasons

I note that the newly published guidance on the giving of reasons by justices in the family proceedings court (by the Magistrates Association and the Justices’ Clerks’ Society) is silent as regards the (in my view*) inappropriate practice of counsel for the local authority drafting facts and reasons for the justices. By implication however that practice is not [...]

adoption and father’s rights

John at Family Lore has beaten me to it on this story about the Court of Appeal decision that a father should not be told about his 4 month old baby prior to adoption. I agree with what John says about the Mother having the ultimate veto over the father knowing – this goes against [...]

Family Units

Carol Sarler wrote a piece in The Times yesterday in which she questions the proposition that children need a father. She is clearly supportive of non-traditional family units, including same-sex two parent couples and rightly so. The thrust of what she says is: that the modern notion of the role of a father is just that – [...]

Double Darn

check out: the Darn Divorce blog which I found through another site: Marilyn Stowe’s blog

Indigestible

Well its 9.30pm and I’ve given myself indigestion trying to get myself ready for my maintenance pending suit hearing tomorrow. My rather excellent Sunday Roast is (apart from the indigestion) a distant memory. Never try and number crunch after too many helpings of roast potatoes. The scrutinising of other people’s bank statements should be banned [...]

Fisking

Thanks to Head of Legal, I have learnt a new word. I shall endeavour to both use it and do it.

Flying Carpets and Turkish Delight

I am flabbergasted at this story. In summary a well respected High Court Judge in the Family Division has been roundly condemned by the Court of Appeal for making a string of remarks which were pointedly referring to the ethnic origin of one of the parties, namely a wealthy Sheikh. Mr Justice Singer has publicly [...]