Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Neither a Paedophile Nor a Paediatrician

More information is filtering into the public domain about the contempt of court proceedings connected to Vicky Haigh, and to the Children Act proceedings concerning her children, which have been held up by John Hemming MP as a case of injustice. Today the UK Human Rights Blog publishes the full press release, but we still [...]

It’s The Bells, Your Honour

This week I rang a touch of Grandsire Triples, and plain courses of Plain Bob Minor and of Stedman Doubles. Most readers of this blog will not have the first idea what that means. It means I did some clever stuff with church bells, and I was quite pleased with myself when I got home, [...]

Bared Teeth – Grrrrr!

Contempt of Court are the “teeth” behind privacy rules in family proceedings. The court will bite, but only when necessary. This week a private investigator enmeshed in the Vicky Haigh care proceedings (which has become a weird kind of celebrity care case thanks to the Max Cliffords of the family justice world: Christopher Booker and [...]

Book Review: Legal Aid Handbook

This review is a guest post written by  Julia Belyavin, barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol.   Legal Aid Handbook 2011/12, Ed Vicky Lang & Simon Pugh (Legal Action Group) I’ll be honest, when I was reminded that I’d said I’d review the Legal Aid Handbook 2011/12, my heart sank.  It was definitely a ‘what was [...]

Gone Camping

Well, in fact I’m just back. In body at least. But I couldn’t send a postcard since my tech has been languishing in the festival lost and found in a 3G deadzone. And also because I couldn’t be bovverred innit. Apologies for the slim pickins this week. I have had fractured tent poles and fractious [...]

There’s been a riot in my living room

Nigh on every evening when I come home from work I am confronted with carnage. Sofas and blankets made into tents, a carpet of toy food and unidentifiable pieces of plastic toy, and a sprinkling of real food debris. And somewhere hidden amongst it two little monsters with angelic grins, and a weary, weary looking [...]

Book review: The Family Lawyer and the Court of Protection

In these wobbly and ever changing days, family lawyers in particular are re-appraising their skillset and breadth of practice. Many are wondering if they should be bringing themselves up to speed in respect of Court of Protection work, and this is not lost on family law publishers Jordans, who have a number of titles and [...]

Sunday Blues

It’s Sunday night, and I’ve just trudged back from the chicken house, eggless and with rain dripping from my nose. I’ve got a stinking cold and we had to cancel our planned camping trip (combined with visit to Peppa Pig World) with a horde of old and very good friends because of sick children. Oh, [...]

Presidential Lapse

The President’s Interim Guidance in respect of CAFCASS will be allowed to lapse on it’s expiry on 30 September. Many will recall that the “interim” guidance, designed to deal with the crisis faced by CAFCASS at a time of escalating demand for services, was rather less temporary than had initially been envisaged. The Guidance is [...]

That ain’t my bag baby

The other week whilst comparing LSC induced overdrafts with an opponent (think Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon competing about gory scars), an opponent piped up with some accounts advice: if you buy a Mulberry handbag every year you can claim it as an expense (perhaps she does more Local Authority work than [...]

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