Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

LSC – Not Appealing

The LSC are not appealing the JR decision quashing the family bid contracts. Perhaps they could not secure funding?

Judge Judge Judges

The LCJ shares his views on the family justice system with the Justice Committee. I don’t have the energy to deconstruct this one – it’s been a shockingly tiresome day (don’t get me started on that). May I be so bold as to summarise my thoughts thus: gross oversimplification of the issues. Separate out the cases [...]

Call For Information From Litigants In Person

I’m in the process of writing a handbook for litigants in person involved in family proceedings and I’d really like to make it the best and most useful it can be. Can you help? I can offer a sound explanation of the law and procedure along with some insight for non-lawyers about how we lawyers [...]

President’s Interim Guidance Extended Again

I have a stinking cold and I am mortified not to be included in Legal Week’s round up of UK Blawgs, but I soldier on to bring you more news from the world of family law and things that might be tangentially relevant to it. Selfless. But you will have to make do with a [...]

Decision to Scrap – Scrapped

News just in courtesy of the FLBA. In an unexpected announcement Jonathan Djanogly MP yesterday reversed the abolition of court fees for local authorities in care and supervision proceedings.  When these fees were introduced the FLBA strongly opposed them – as indeed did the Law Society, and the NSPCC. Four councils launched a judicial review [...]

Willy Wonka’s Spending Review

At the risk of becoming monotonous, news of the demise of family legal aid is not greatly exaggerated. The headlines yesterday were full of 30% MoJ cuts, with the heft of those cuts falling to be met by shrinkage of the legal aid budget. We will wait until Wednesday to find out quite how bad [...]

Privacy Law Change Shelved

As heralded here the implementation of the CSFA 2010 reforms has been shelved pending the report of the Family Justice Review Committee in the autumn of 2011 (The MoJ website summarises the announcement here). Which is odd, because the terms of reference of that committee relate only to system and process and specifically exclude making [...]

Judgment in Law Society v Legal Services Commission

Judgment now available here. Haven’t even read it…

Ooh – The Cheek of it!!

Afua Hirsch nails it in this article for the Guardian about the importance of legal aid. But that’s not primarily what this post is about. What has got me back on my virtual soapbox in the middle of my favourite telly programme is the offensive remarks of the Justice Minister quoted in that article. Afua [...]

Alakazam!

Further to my post only yesterday about the proposal to revoke the implementing SI in respect of the Family Advocacy Scheme – it has already been revoked. As Tommy Cooper would have said: “Jus’ like that”. It is said that this is an interim measure taken in light of the current position vis a vis [...]

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