I’ve had my first taste of the new public law case management portal this week. By a process of trial, error, clicking, clicking, unfurling and furling, clicking, scrolling and yet more clicking – I have established that this is in fact an inter-dimensional portal into a parallel universe where logic does not apply, and where the three click rule has been inverted so that every action requires a minimum of 3 clicks, and every fifth action opens a new browser window, just for larks.

I’m sure it will improve with user feedback, but it is fair to say that my first journey around a case in portal world left me feeling a bit like the girl with a crush on Morten Harket in that ‘Take On Me’ video… (yes, yes we all had a crush on Morten Harket. I mean the girl who is taken by the hand and inside the comic book through a bright white maze of confusion).

Sadly, I did not find Morten Harket.

I did manage to upload a case outline. I’m not sure I put it in the right place or that anyone will ever find it, but it is there, listed under a heading where nobody would think to find it because I couldn’t find a more suitable location to put it. I am idly imagining that if the judge successfully navigates the maze and finds my case outline he will cry ‘Aha!’ triumphantly, in a style perhaps more reminiscent of Alan Partridge than of Morten…

Anyway, its been a long and surreal day here at Pink Tape towers. I just dropped by to say : welcome to the future, my fellow comic bookers… the portal is coming to a screen near you this autumn…