Not Punny

My husband wants to know if Wall LJ’s Larkin judgment is what they call ‘poetic justice’? (groans) In the words of Basil Brush: Bu-Boom.

The Economics of Dysfunction

It frustrates me that, whilst care proceedings are sometimes a spur for parents to recognise the significance of their own past experience, personal issues and their pressing need for therapy to enable them to parent better and to lead more productive fulfilled lives, there is often no route through to achieve these goals because of ‘resource issues’. As [...]

Facebook Families

I am beginning to think that an understanding of Facebook and social media will have to form a part of a family practitioner’s annual CPD requirements. Here are a few of the ways that I have seen facebook, myspace and other similar websites crop up in a court or family context: public arguments between couples over [...]

Sign of The Times

Dear Sir, I would like to apologise for ”avin’ a GO’ at your esteemed publication. It may be thought unfair that I am so often critical of articles prepared by journalists writing for your newspaper, but you should draw comfort from the fact that my repeat lambasting is evidence only of my continued and regular purchase [...]

Quite (Un)interesting

So today I was not sure whether to be disappointed that no journalists were queueing outside the family proceedings court waiting to watch and report on my efforts at wading through thick soup. No, we were not quite interesting enough for them to brave the Monday morning April showers, the WRVS Coffee or the anti-sleep bench [...]

A Few Home Birth Truths

This entry is more than usually personal, but an article in last week’s Times has touched a nerve and I have found it difficult to respond fully without referring to my own experience - this is one topic which is best approached from a recognition of the myriad of individual experiences rather than generalisation. If you aren’t mad keen on the [...]

Top 100 Most Pointless Lists

The Times has published a list of the top 100 ‘most powerful lawyers’ here. What a stupidly vague and pointless piece of space filling that was. Must have been a slow legal news day or something. It’s not even what it purports to be, since famous / notorious / good at working the media / working in [...]

Care System

Interesting article in the Guardian today about the care system and in particular residential care homes, drawing out some of the issues raised in the House of Commons Children Schools & Families Committee Report which I have linked to in a brief post on the FLW Blog. Unfortunately I haven’t had time to fully digest [...]

You! You at the back! PAY ATTENTION!

As reported in The Times today journalists and activists are beginning to realise that the reforms in respect of media access to family proceedings are not a green light to report anything and everything juicy, salacious or gruesome. Or really much of anything at all. Not a few people were so caught up whooping at [...]

P-p-p pick up a Podcast

The charming Natasha at Divorce Manual has interviewed me for a podcast. If, like me, you like listening to the sound of my slightly irritating voice, you will love it. Find the podcast here. Or, if you prefer to listen to a gentleman, you can find John Bolch’s podcast from last week here, which I am [...]