Sunday night telly – a bussman’s holiday

Just spent a depressing evening watching a re-run of the Fiona’s Story screenplay on BBC1, about a wife who discovers her husband has been viewing child pornography. On the whole this is a really interesting look at a difficult subject, but two things really didn’t ring true for me (one perhaps more trivial than the [...]

Pre-Nups

Interesting post from Marilyn Stowe about Pre-Nups. She has beaten me to Christopher Sharp QC’s recent article in the FLJ, which I will now go and read…

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Further to my previous post, I’ve now belatedly read Wednesday’s G2 which contains a further article about the divorce in a time of economic decline. The author of that article refers anecdotally to the fact some family law firms have ‘never been busier’, but does not quote any statistics showing a recent rise in divorce [...]

divorce on the up

Reported today (on our local radio station at least) was news that divorce is on the up again. anecdotally ancillary relief work is thin on the ground. much amusing speculation by random people off the streets about the reasons for the rates going up, largely ‘the econermy’ or ‘the credit crunch’…I’d be surprised if the [...]

LEGS ELEVEN

Yes I hit the wall at the weekend. I made a sorry sight on the treadmill in our hotel in Winchester, red as a beetroot and having to stop every km for a break. I managed 10k which I was rather disappointed to learn is only 6 miles. But that was the day after a [...]

past the half way mark…

after last weeks 7.3 miles I had a very busy week at work and took quite a while to feel fully recovered enough to attempt any further. I managed one three mile run in the week which was really tough. and on friday night when I was due to run at 8pm, instead me and the baby went [...]

Lawcare

I’ve posted before about the stresses and strains of a legal career and the service provided by LAWCARE is not publicised widely enough. Lawcare provide advice and support to lawyers in distress through a network of volunteers and referrals for counselling and other services. Many of their users have substance abuse problems or depression. Just to bring home how essential [...]

7 mile itch

Ran 5 miles on Fri and 7.3 miles today. I am now icing my aching knees…Took just under 1 1/2 hrs and I am cream crackered. Got completely soaked at the start and ran most of the route blind with my glasses on top of my head relying on my brother to spot traffic, but [...]

between two stools

Legal aid is all well and good if you can get it but for many people legal expenses have to be met from elsewhere…If the world were divided into those who can’t afford to pay for representation and those who can’t and if everyone who fell into the former category got legal aid – it [...]

loverly

Since I am sitting at my rather jazzy new hotdesk (well, its not really ‘mine’ or it wouldn’t be a hot desk just a desk) twiddling the preverbials – now seems to be a good time to post. But I am not enormously inspired and nothing actually useful springs to mind. So you’ll have to make do with [...]