Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

So – Superinjunct me!

The hype about hyperinjunctions is just extraordinary at the moment. There is a vast amount of blogging and commentary on the topic, but I’d like to focus on the issue as it relates to family law. I’m specifically not going to comment on Baroness Deech’s suggestion that women are to blame for the rise of [...]

Powerful Meaninglessness?

Big Legal Brain make I laff. Their top 3 powerfully meaningless phrases are: “Though this is not true” “Throughout all of human history” and “When all is said and done” These (they say) are the kinds of phrases you can stash away and rely on to bolster an argument without really saying anything. I definitely wouldn’t be [...]

Child Violence Cases rise 20%

From Metro Tues 19 April: The number of young children needing emergency hospital treatment because of violence has risen by more than 20 per cent in a year. A total of 3,402 under-tens in England and Wales were treated by casualty departments after violence last year. This was up from 2,814 in 2009 despite a [...]

Loose Ends

The Family Procedure (Modification of Enactments) Order 2011 (SI 2011/1045) tie up a few of the loose ends and anomalies I had been wondering about, following the implementation of the Family Procedure Rules 2010. In particular, they bring part 28 on costs into effect in the FPC, and clarify the Allocation Order which provided for transfer [...]

Telegraph Poll

Hands up who else just keeps tripping over yet another eye roller of an article in The Telegraph? You don’t even need to buy the thing, people just keep tweeting and facebooking humdinger after humdinger. I don’t want to be constantly confronted with Telegraphisms but I just can’t bring myself to ignore them. This time [...]

Cornycopia

It’s like the 2.0 version of the John Soane’s Museum around yur tonight. I have been hoarding. Stashing a little virtual pile, of links and stuff. And now I find myself with a veritable mountain of fast decaying trinkets and delicacies. So, forgive the mess, but my curation style owes much to Soanes himself (that’s [...]

Holy Mess

Britain’s Family Justice System Isn’t Working, writes Alisdair Palmer, Public Policy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph today. He may well be right, but that’s about all I agree with in the article. It starts like this, and you know it’s going to be downhill from there: It used to be said that the Holy Roman [...]

Search Me

It’s a source of some regret that the searches people perform are increasingly relevant to the actual content on this blog, for this means that the more outlandish and amusing searches are less common. I’m gratified to see a search for “hotty barristers” but sense that this was not one of the searches which found [...]

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