Gotta Licence to Blog

So. Leveson then. Not just for newspapers but for lil ol’ blogs too it seems. Fab-O. Not really in a position to analyse myself at the moment but : Useful Storify here. In particular see this article about the whole license to blog thang. Is it chilly in here?

A little help from my McKenzie Friend – might be frowned upon

I revisited the case of Re H (Children) [2012] EWCA Civ 1797 recently, having read a blog post about it on Suesspicious Minds entitled Oh Lord, won’t you buy me, a McKenzie Friend? (Yes I know, my song title is inferior to his). As pointed out in that post its an authority which is not on [...]

Gale Force

I came across a chap called David Gale recently when he posted a comment on my blog, and in one of my more idle moments I clicked through to find out about who he was. David Gale it seems, is a UKIP activist, an unsuccessful candidate for Police Commissioner, and the man behind a campaign [...]

Mystery Solved!

It’s Official! Self Represented Litigants are OUT. Litigants in Person are back IN. And I have PROOF. Which is good, because I’ve been chasing my tail trying to track the source of the rumours trickling out and beyond working out there was some form of guidance being circulated around the judiciary, and being told that [...]

See Through Justice

Transparency is edging closer. After the Childrens Schools and Families Act 2010 fiasco (provisions reforming privacy in family proceedings which were much criticised, never brought into force and finally repealed by the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012), we’ve been left with the small step introduced in 2010 that was allowing reporters [...]

What does “exceptional” mean in a post-LASPO world?

Some have speculated that once LASPO 2012 has been implemented on 1 April and pretty much everything falls out of scope there will be plenty of – erm – scope – for applications under the “exceptional cases” provisions (Legal aid cuts? What legal aid cuts? [2012] Fam Law 1267, Peter Graham Harris, Oxford Centre for [...]

She’s Gone Country…

I rely heavily on Radio 4 in the mornings, both as antidote to early morning Cbeebies and in order to kick start my mental factulties. I’m usually animatedly berating Humph by the time I screech into my parking space of a morning, raring to get to court and exercise my lungs a bit more. But [...]

Dad Tax?

You may not have noticed amidst the horsemeat hysteria and gay marriage news – but the Children and Families Bill was published this week. I haven’t had time to do more than glance at the Bill, but it looks more or less as we expected it to. The Bill will introduce a presumption of parental involvement, [...]

Plugarama for St John’s Chambers

WARNING :Shameless plug for some super seminars being offered by my fab colleagues in chambers. First up : Dynamic Duo Andrew Commins and Richard Norman prrrreeeesent *drum roll* : Top Ten Family Finance Cases of 2012 (Bristol, 12 March, 4.30pm). Gosh do we bloggers love a Top Ten. Topical and Timely (it says on the tin), [...]

Hodge Podge

I have some podge going begging. So whilst my new weight loss kick is distracting me from proper blogging on account of me having to spend several hours a day looking wan and draping the back of my hand weakly across my brow, you can have my leftover hodge podge, my bubble and squeak of blogging. [...]