Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

FLBA Website

The Family Law Bar Association has recently begun to publish press releases and consultation responses to its website here. The website is due to be relaunched soon in its entirety but this is a helpful interim measure.

You can't have your cake OR eat it…but the cake is the same size as it always was

It wasn’t a good start. They concluded the presentation ten minutes before the advertised start time meaning that I missed it even though I was early. That was the second session and I had missed the first part entirely as I had been stuck at court on just the kind of case that will be [...]

Punishing the Victim

This news story about the imprisonment of a woman giving testimony about an alleged rape does not make happy reading. It appears that the Scottish judge imprisoned her for contempt of court when she objected to questions about her sexual history and broke down in the witness box, unable to continue. I find it hard [...]

Gingerbread Contact Survey…and a little philosophy

Gingerbread’s website was down today when I went to find this report, so I’m linking to the post on Divorce Survivor which attaches the report itself and summarises some of the stats (its 140+ pages long). I got distracted by something half way through reading this, but what struck me was the discrepant reporting as between [...]

Feelin' Anti-Social

Just taking a break from Sunday night work…thinking back over my weekend I realise I worked most of Friday evening, some of Sat morning, a couple of hours this morning and now am back at it. Have managed to do most of my work when baby is in bed but some weekends it’s a challenge fitting [...]

Setting Aside Adoption Orders

The judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Webster v Norfolk adoption saga is available here. A very sad case. The judgment is very long, but in essence the Court of Appeal has held that the adoption orders cannot be set aside and there is no purpose in reopening the findings made against Mr [...]

TRIIIII-O TRI-I-I-O (I wan go home)

Further to my previous 2 posts on legal aid reform in family cases which are here and here the Family Law Bar Association has issued the following press release: Family barristers voice concerns over impact on women of cuts in legal help for vulnerable families and children Government plans to cut legal help for vulnerable [...]

Family Justice Under Threat Part Deux

Further to yesterday’s post about the cuts in legal aid proposed for 2010, confirmation arrives of the long inevitable interim cuts to take effect in June. I’d go out and engage in some retail therapy to cheer me up but I can’t afford it…

Celebrity DV

Even the rich and famous are affected by domestic violence it seems…I was struck yesterday by the amount of comments posted on stories about the incident which were strongly in favour of one or other party even before the facts had emerged, in particular a significant number of men and women strongly asserting that Rihanna [...]

Open Justice – Access to 'Accredited Media'

Journalism.co.uk notes an interesting issue about who will comprise the group ‘accredited media’ for the purposes of access to the family courts. Nobody seems yet to know the answer. I’d have thought it was of critical importance in terms of safeguarding privacy appropriately.

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    A blog in which I ricochet from too serious to too flippant, and alternate between a bit clever, a bit interesting and a bit ranty: Pink Tape neatly functions as both a blog about family law and a therapeutic escape valve for me. >>more




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