Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Are you the Lucy Reed who runs the Canadian Lottery?

I notice today that someone has googled ‘lucy reeds barrister’ and has hit upon this blog. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been alerted of at least 2 emails purporting to come from me or someone with my name, one suggesting I run the canadian lottery and one suggesting I am a nigerian banker [...]

Shrinking the Lawyers

There is a really interesting article in the December issue of Family Law (Fam Law [2007] 1107) entitled ‘Attachment Problems Among Lawyers’. In it Dr George Hibbert, a consultant Psychiatrist, writes about the issue of attachment in the family courts. . Ordinarily family lawyers come across attachment theory in expert court reports, particularly in care [...]

grrrrr

This may be shouting into a gale but dammit will SOMEBODY PLEASE tell social services legal departments that you cannot obtain a supervision order through a last minute recommendation in a s37 report without issuing a s31 application in the usual way? If my client’s long awaited final hearing on residence is waylaid this week [...]

open justice – government proposals

The Times reports that the government has had further thoughts on the subject of open justice. After consulting and then shelving its original proposals for opening up the family court system it seems that there is a now a plan, albeit in the early stages, to pilot anonymised judgments in three areas of the country. [...]

The Editorial

Phew – ambitious if nothing else! I for one am feeling slightly jaded and struggling to get back into the swing of things, as is usual for me in January. This chap or chapess is evidently in the grip of a fervent case of new year enthusiasm. I wish her/him well…

Manic Monday

Apparently today is the busiest day of the year for divorce lawyers – everyone has had more than her/his fill of family over Xmas and has resolved to do something about it, so as never to have to endure the hellish season of goodwill in close proximity with his/her spouse (or whoever irks most) ever [...]

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