Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

We don’t need no Ed-ew-ca-shun

Earlier this week I spent a day on a Court of Protection course. Just as we were all entering a post lunch semi-vegative state, up strode Wall LJ to the podium. He is both President of the Family Division and of the Court of Protection. Readers of this blog may find his brief address interesting. [...]

They’re not having my pussy! And I am unanimous in that!

It does read a bit like a sitcom. The Times reports today that John Hemming MP’s wife has been caught on CCTV stealing his partner’s kitten. She is charged with burglary. You might be puzzled by how this came to pass. The Times says that ”She told police that she had found the door of Ms [...]

Open letter to CAFCASS

“An open letter in respect of my resignation from Cafcass 26 September 2011 Dear  …………………, I have long had my doubts as to whether Cafcass as an organisation is fit for purpose.  I have been critical of the honesty and integrity of the management of the service, things that continue to concern me.  I have [...]

Grieve-ances aired

The AG Dominic Grieve promised at the recent meeting of the Family Bar (which I have notably failed to blog about *slaps own wrist*) that he would read and personally respond to all our letters about legal aid. Before putting them in the bin. Today’s Times reports that he  ”is to intervene in the controversy [...]

Entertaining Elephants

A while ago I commented on a blog post about the nature of legal blogging. I was pretty relaxed about the definition of legal blogging, and people’s self-definition and motivation for blogging and was a bit bemused when a number of commenters got a bit hot under the collar about who was a real blogger [...]

Purging like a kitten

I’m a bit behind the curve on this one. Others have covered it already so I can do no better than to point you to their work. Elizabeth Watson has purged her contempt in relation to the publication of material concerning the Vicky Haigh family proceedings. The judgment is astonishingly blunt and in my view [...]

Bit light on the blogging lately aren’t we?

Yes. Sorry… Stuff keeps happening. Clients keep needing me to read about their family before I represent them. The kids keep needing baths, cuddles and fishfingers. And I keep needing to sleep. B+ Must try harder.

Rats! Why didn’t I think of that?

I’m miffed. There is a pioneering new online service out there called Intelligent Divorce and I think its probably a stroke of genius. Intelligent Divorce is an online service for divorcing couples (or for one half of a divorcing couple) which enables them to access high quality advice from a specialist family barrister at a [...]

What Kind of Debate Should We Be Having About Domestic Violence?

This post is a guest blog post written by Sarah Phillimore. Sarah is a family barrister with over 15 years of experience. She tweets as @SVPhillimore and this is her first foray into blogging. This post arose from a tweet from @change4victims calling for support for an e-petition entitled “review of access laws for domestic abusers”, subsequently retweeted by @womensaid. The petition [...]

Shock, Awe and Disgust

I have recently been following a twitter account called @YourKidsNeedYou. As a result, popping up in my twitter stream from this account have been such gems as: and: The url ez.com/stopcheaters redirects to a US website friendsofcourt.com, to be specific to a page selling an “Attention Cheaters!” toolkit “for only $150!”. It contains a sample [...]

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