Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Mediation Assessment

Mr Ministrio O Justice and Ms Accessa D Justice have been referred to this service following a breakdown of their relationship, for the purposes of a mediation assessment appointment. I have met with both parties and can report as follows: There is a significant power imbalance as Ministrio is the sole breadwinner and Accessa is [...]

A GIFT from the MoJ

I was charmed to receive in my inbox today an invitation to help The Man promote the new policy of compulsory thinking-about-mediation. How kind. The editorial and content team at the MoJ thought the press release might be “good fuel for Pinktape”. Adrian would like me to help him raise awareness “that there is an alternative [...]

A thousand cuts – a million consequences

As noted in the Observer this week (although no link to it seems to be available) proposed cuts to housing benefit for those under age 35, which are predicated on the assumption that the claimants can live in multiple occupancy accommodation, are likely to have a significant effect on non-resident parents seeking contact to their [...]

Vote for Legal Aid

Legal aid has been suggested as a campaign on 38 degrees. It’s moved up to no 1 in the list, which just goes to show how it has grabbed people’s attention. If you want to vote for the campaign to be adopted by 38 degrees you can do so here.

Evaluation of Parenting Information Programmes – Call for help

This post was almost called PIP PIP (Participate in Project on Parenting Information Programmes). But that would have been dumb. And I never do dumb titles. Ever. So, anyway. This is a request for urgent assistance with a research project to evaluate PIPs. The researchers need to conduct telephone interviews (15-20 minutes) with solicitors who have [...]

CONSULTATION RESPONSE – P.S. TO KEN CLARKE

A point I wish I’d made in my consultation response in respect of the rise of the litigant in person and the impact on access to justice: The family jurisdiction is often thought of (by non-family lawyers at any rate) as law-lite (we know this because chancery and criminal lawyers take especial delight in telling [...]

Too Much Information

ALL LAWYERS PLEASE FAMILIARISE YOURSELF WITH THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER’S WEBSITE NOW. Look in particular at the section on “What we cover > Taking Action” and the two Money Penalty Notices issued so far. WORRIED? I’d like to meet one lawyer, one firm, one set of chambers that genuinely thinks it is not vulnerable to this [...]

Practice Directions to the New Family Procedure Rules 2010 – Mediation PD

I posted recently about the Practice Directions to the new Family Procedure Rules which come into force on 6 April. Practice Direction 3A Pre-Application Protocol for Mediation Information and Assessment has now been published along with a guidance note and Compliance Form FM1. It provides that parties to private family proceedings must prior to issue [...]

Ken’s Valentines

Patrick Torsney at iLegal (@ilegalbytes) has gathered together all the responses to the Legal Aid Green Paper in one place here. What a daunting prospect – does this mean I have to read them ALL? Mr Clarke will be kept busy for a little while by this lot, as no doubt he will read each [...]

Darling, I’m Changing My Job

My husband always joke (with a rather wan expression on his face) that you should never marry a divorce lawyer. But, for better or for worse, we are still together after over ten years. And now I know why – when marrying a divorce lawyer one does at least go into the thing with eyes open. [...]

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