Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Legal Aid Spending

What he said: Legal Aid Spending: Who’s to Blame? on Lawyer Watch.

Family Justice Review Interim Report

The interim report of the FJR has been published today. This post represents very much an interim analysis of that interim report (is it hyperinterim, adopting the style all the most fashionable injunctions?). I’m pleased to say that quite a lot of what is in the report was contained in the paper presented to the FJR [...]

Justice Select Committee Report Published

The Justice Select Committee today published it’s report on the Government’s proposed reforms of legal aid. I am reliably informed that family justice features heavily in the report, which adopts much of what the FLBA has had to say on the matter about the potential adverse impact of the proposals on children, and the inapposite [...]

PAUSE FOR BREATH

It may go a bit quiet around here for a week or two. Busy with work and other things. On the other hand, I’ll be staying away from home on a case, so if I have no prep of an evening I may write a few bits to distract me from the loneliness of Premier [...]

Stay of Execution

It seem’s that the Government response to the legal aid consultation has been delayed – but only until after Easter. As reported by LAG and the Gazette.

Family Procedure Rules 2010 – Revised

I posted a couple of things on the blog as the rules were hot off the press, and when the PDs first began to emerge like crocuses on a lawn. I was candid at the time that these were just first impressions, a roughing out of what the new season would look like. Well time [...]

The Woman Who Wouldn’t Shut Up

I’ve been reflecting lately on my approach to blogging and social media. How I blog, and in particular what I share with and present to the world are all important questions. And I don’t answer them in the way that every blogger does. I’m very self conscious about what is and isn’t appropriate, continually checking [...]

A SIMPLE RECIPE

Sourdough – Recipe makes one family sized loaf Take one large statutory instrument (fresh) and break it into 36 PARTS. Separate each part into several Chapters and season liberally with fresh terminology and numbering (roman is the best). Add several lever arch files and 2 reams of paper and stir. Leave the mixture overnight covered [...]

Pickle, Don’t Preserve

Our eponymous hero Eric Pickles (Department for Communities and Local Government) has announced quite possibly the most wide sweeping and yet sketchy review of local authority social care and other duties (amongst many other things) (H/T Community Care). At first blush it looks harmless enough, strip away the regulatory red tape and let local authorities [...]

Brought To Booker

I don’t read the Telegraph, but it has become increasingly difficult to avoid being confronted with the journalism of Christopher Booker, who it seems is engaged in a long standing campaign against the national child snatching scandal represented by our care system. The latest to have come my way is this piece on 5 March, in which [...]

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