Blawg Review #290

Welcome to Blawg Review #290 which hails this week from Blighty, where we offer a warm welcome to the libel tourist and the would-be-wealthy divorcee alike. In a week of exploding aircraft and travel chaos there has been much said on twitter (#twitterjoketrial and #iamspartacus) and across the blawgosphere about the conviction of Paul Chambers [...]

Why I’m Cross

It makes me cross when it takes adversarial cross examination of a social worker to force a Local Authority into pulling its finger out and fulfilling it’s duty towards children and parents. It shouldn’t be necessary. If things worked as they should such cross examination would fall flat. Far too often though, things do not [...]

Losing Track – four nil?

I’ve been a bit tied up with work of late, and I see that whilst my back has turned the LSC has crashed and burned in yet another JR (thanks LAG Blog)  in respect of their tender process – immigration this time. I wonder how many families could have been provided advice and representation from the [...]

Round Up

A few oddments observed over the last week or so: Lord Justice Goldring has raised concerns about the impact of the proposed court closure programme on family justice. A number of magistrates courts which incorporate FPCs are likely to be affected. If family proceedings were consolidated into the County Court before DJs this would present [...]

Guided Tour

You may or may not have noticed a few of the features on the revamped Pink Tape, located in the right hand columns. They include a feed of recent family cases from BAILLI (this has taken some repeated tweaking but should now be a pretty reliable feed of family only judgments), and an email subscription [...]