Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Legal Aid Reforms – It’s Not Rocket Science Boys

I could spout on and on about all the things wrong with the Legal Aid reforms set out in the Green Paper published last month (and indeed I already have), but in fact Polly Curtis has already done it for me, in this recent article in The Guardian – she is of course absolutely right [...]

Diverse Guidance

The Lord Chief Justice has recently issued guidance on tweeting and other live text based electronic communications in court. It does not exactly give screen blanche to would be tweeters but it does make it theoretically possible – after specific approval has been given. It seems likely that this will be primarily for livev blogging [...]

It’s OVER!

No, not Christmas silly – that limps on until twelfth night. But divorce is the gift that keeps on giving, if only for the likes of myself and Charon QC, who are happy to shamelessly utilise the concept just for some mildly amusing content in that wilderness between Christmas day and the resumption of reality. And [...]

Research on Litigants in Person

Been meaning to pop a link up to Richard Moorhead’s useful summary of his research on Litigants in Person. In response to the Legal Aid Green Paper, which cites that research, he sets out what the findings were, and the somewhat limited nature of the existing research. Of particular note to readers of this blog [...]

Adoption And Social Networking

Really interesting piece on Radio 4′s All In the Mind this afternoon on adoption, covering the disruptive impact on small babies of being taken to and from contact with birth parents whilst care proceedings are pending, and the sometimes catastrophic impact of unplanned contact between adopted teenagers and birth parents via facebook or the internet. [...]

Points of note

Pink Tape is a little neglected lately. I have been a busy bee. Observations in brief: This morning Eric Pickles, Communities and Local Government Secretary told the Today programme that it was no longer viable for Local Authorities to expect to have their own legal departments (they should share them), see report on the BBC [...]

Questions in the House

There have been a number of questions in The House on family legal aid reform. I see from Lords of the Blog (the House blog) that Baroness Deech, whose pronouncements on family law I do not always agree with, is due to ask a further question. Good on her.

BBC Coverage of Legal Aid Reforms

There are considerable concerns within the family courts about the government’s plans to remove legal aid from private law cases. Sanchia Berg reports for the BBC on the po ssible impact of the changes. Apologies for delay in reporting – I blame the exploding boiler chez familoo which has left my fingers too frozen to [...]

A Gingerbread Xmas

Single parent group Gingerbread have published a factsheet containing their tops tips for surviving Christmas. Sensible advice for parents, even if not separated. Their website contains lots of other useful resources, for example this factsheet on child support.

Narcississssism

Hmmm. I have a number of former clients who were once diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder under DSM IV. But now I see they were right all along – the problem was not with them but with everyone else. In the brave new world of DSM V (sounds like a nebula encountered by the Enterprise) [...]

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