P-p-p pick up a Podcast

The charming Natasha at Divorce Manual has interviewed me for a podcast. If, like me, you like listening to the sound of my slightly irritating voice, you will love it. Find the podcast here. Or, if you prefer to listen to a gentleman, you can find John Bolch’s podcast from last week here, which I am [...]

Ruminations of an Apologist

I often feel as if I may come across on this blog as some kind of apologist for the family justice system. Those who know me would chortle at the notion of me as propagandist for The Man, but I am conscious that I often find myself defending the system against a partial or inaccurate attack from the [...]

Podcast

For those of you with nothing better to do John Bolch at Family Lore has just interviewed me for a podcast, which you can download here.

Green Shoots

I know it’s supposed to be quiet in January at the Bar, but I have never found January to be a very quiet month. This year has been a slow starter but WHAM! this week has been a busy busy one. Rest assured I haven’t given up posting, but all evenings this week have been [...]

WHO ARE YOU?

I really REALLY want to know – who IS it that is reading this Blog? Are you barristers, solicitors, wannabee lawyers, parents involved in the family justice system, generalised web addicts, insomniacs??? Just an interesting little experiment to see how many of you will comment on this post telling me who my readership are…I seem to remember [...]

Your Cheatin’ Heart

It’s a cheat I know, but look I’m busy moving house so I need a couple of easy posts…Bear with me. Normal service will be restored after the New Year. It may seem unlikely in these times of doom and stagnation, but we have (finally) managed to sell our house and cobble together the funds [...]

The Charon Podcast

We barristers all love the sound of our own voices, to which end: my podcast with Charon QC

two loos

two reasons for pointing you in the direction of this blog and specifically this post: firstly its a really interesting but tragic post about a 10 year old child bride taking herself off to court to obtain a divorce from the husband who repeatedly raped her (and an interesting blog generally from the looks of [...]

social worker blogs

this new blog from a trainee social worker in the US looks like it could develop into something interesting. and an already established social work blog (also from the US) is already rather engaging.

I’m Back (Brain to follow shortly)

It’s hard to reach this keyboard with the babber in a sling on my chest…but darn it that’s not the toughest thing I’ve done in the last 3 weeks…Quick – while he’s sleeping – BLOG a BLOG… . Sigh…It’s hard to keep track of events in the legal world when I am (quite literally) drowning [...]