Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Celebrity Sexists

Mr Loophole might be a good lawyer, but I can’t say I fancy sharing a courtroom with him, having read this charming piece in the Manchester Evening News in which he suggests that wayward youth can and should be tamed by a simple spot of traditional shotgun marriage, before moving on to argue that “women are [...]

Legal Aid Update

In fact it’s been a while since I’ve done more than whine tangentially about the Government’s attempt to wreck the legal aid system. It’s time for an update. Media coverage of the Bill remains pretty thin on the ground, but it has picked up a little (See for example this example from a local TV [...]

Litigants in Person – the horror!

Nicola Williams & Co published a thoughtful article on Flawbord earlier this week about the difficulties caused by and to litigants in person through their inability to secure legal advice and representation: Horrendous. Amongst other things the article looks at publicly available stats on the numbers of cases, noting along the way that those published [...]

Hedge your bets

Further to last weeks post about the rejection of the NYAS legal aid tender by the LSC, along with another 70 or so applications: the LSC, no doubt wary of further searingly insightful and devastatingly critical pieces on this blog (or possibly of yet more potential litigation), appear to have backed down and given organisations a [...]

Damn your eyes you contemptible scoundrel!

You know those times when checking the to-do list doesn’t calm you down? That. So in lieu of a calm considered post (or even in lieu of a lengthy and time consuming but ill considered ranty post) please accept the following offerings: Contempt: Don’t be in it to win it. You’d think that journalists that [...]

Approaching Mediaton

Once again I’ve spent a solid 3 day stint undertaking mediation training and I’m relieved to say it’s now over, apart from one assignment. You only realise how much you rely on a weekend of pootling in order to recharge for a Monday when it’s taken away. My recharging time has been eaten up by [...]

Out On A Technicality

I complain often enough about the LSC finding pathetic technicalities upon which to base the rejection of my claims for payment for work done (most recently a five figure sum which relates to work between 6 and 18 months ago on a single case, but more frequently the rejection of a smaller claim because I [...]

Child Support Support from Gingerbread

Gingerbread has launched an email advice pack for single parents who are looking for information about child maintenance payments. Child maintenance is an essential form of support for many single parent families, but making arrangements to ensure it gets paid can be complicated and confusing. With the government talking of overhauling the way child maintenance [...]

Bailii

A long time ago I promised I would do my bit to help BAILII raise funds. And then I forgot about it. I have now made good on my promise and gift aided 5% of the funds I have raised through advertising on Pink Tape to BAILII. Not a fortune, but it’s better than a [...]

Well, you did ask

This is a funny sort of book review. I’m not going to tell you the name of the book or the author. It is in fact an anonymised book review of an already anonymised book which was ghost written on behalf of a father previously involved in lengthy family court proceedings in the County and [...]

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