Book Review : Moranthology

I realised as I arrived at Bristol International Airport ready to embark a plane for Cyprus that I had failed to bring any holiday reading save for a copy of Feminist Judgments that my husband bought me for Christmas 2010 at my specific request and which I have been trying to read ever since. This [...]

Book Review : Ideas and Debates in Family Law

Book Review : Ideas and Debates in Family Law, by Rob George  (Hart Publishing, 2012) Rob George’s book is a slender book with Lassie* inexplicably on the cover. My first question was “Why Lassie?” but as I read on I discovered that the inside was choc full of other questions. At first I begrudged it’s lack [...]

Book Review : Child Support Handbook 2012/13

  This review is a guest post written by  Jody Atkinson, barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol. Jody is instructed in both children and money cases, and has a particular interest in the trickier areas of family law, such as cohabitation and child support. Child Poverty Action Group, Child Support Handbook 2012/2013, (20th Edition, CPAG) [...]

Book Review : Making mediation work for you – a practical handbook

Making mediation work for you – a practical handbook Kate Aubrey-Johnson with Helen Curtis (LAG, 2012) As someone who has recently trained as a family mediator I was keen to review this handbook. It contains a wealth of useful explanatory material about mediation in general, and about the way that mediation operates in particular areas [...]

I read a real book

This isn’t really a book review. I’m a little frightened of doing a book review on  piece of fiction. To be honest I don’t feel terribly well qualified (notwithstanding my bachelors degree in English, which my husband still irritatingly refers to as a “Degree in the AB-use of the English Language” after 11 years of [...]

Book Review: Bubble Wrapped Children – How social networking is transforming the face of 21st century adoption

This review is a guest post written by  Sarah Phillimore, barrister at St John’s Chambers (@svphillimore), Bristol. Sarah joined St Johns Chambers in January 2011 from Coram Chambers in London. She has experience of all areas of family law and is training to become an accredited family mediator. Bubble Wrapped Children: How social networking is transforming the face [...]

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 [...]

Book Review: Local Authority Support for Children and Families

This review is a guest post written by  Julia Belyavin, barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol. Local Authority Support for Children and Families – Sally Gore (Family Law, 2011) A one line review would simply say that this is a useful and clearly written book.

Family Courts without a Lawyer: Review

This review by Chris Barton, Professor of Family Law and VP Family Mediators Association, was first published in Family Law November 2011 (Fam Law [2011] 1310) and is republished with kind permission of Jordans. Family Courts without a Lawyer: A Handbook for Litigants in Person Lucy Reed, Bath Publishing, 1st edn, 2011, £29.50, paperback, 308 [...]

Book Review: THE RED BOOK (Family Court Practice 2011)

Many will already have their Red Book by now. But many will still be pondering it, increasingly conscious of the delicate balance between overheads and income. But really, if ever there was a year when you needed an up to date FCP it is this year. 2010 editions are pretty much obsolete as a result [...]