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Well – DUUR!!

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , on March 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »

News just in from the FLBA: The Report from Francis Plowden – the Review of Court Fees in Child Care Proceedings – was published yesterday. Francis Plowden recommends (unsurprisingly?) abolition of fees for Local Authorities bringing child care proceedings. The Government has accepted this recommendation, and will implement it in April 2011 alongside the next three-year funding settlement [...]

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Ruminations of an Apologist

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , on March 19, 2009 | 17 Comments »

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 [...]

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Review of Family Law

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have yet to have the opportunity to look at this review headed up by IDS but those of you with spare time on your hands may wish to do so. P.S. Is this where the phrase ‘Guest parent’ has suddenly sprung from? I’ve certainly heard IDS on the radio this week opining about the [...]

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REPORT: Outcomes of applications to court for contact orders after parental separation or divorce

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , , on October 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It has taken me some time to read this report in snatches over the last week. John Bolch has already posted about it, and The Times published an article recording just how ‘furious’ fathers rights campaigners are with it. . This report is a really interesting piece of work, although much of what it says [...]

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Reforms Given Short Shrift

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , , on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Magistrate’s Association’s response to the consultation on reforming the legal aid barrister fee scheme is a model of brevity – just as we have come to expect from Magistrates. Answers on one side of A4 please. I’m always up for a challenge though, so I’ve (just) managed to condense this even further: ‘lawyers are important to the [...]

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How to express yourself in court

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , on September 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Those of you who are at all squeamish about bodily functions or ladies jiggly bits look away now. . Earlier this week I was at the Royal Courts of Justice. Glamorous sounding I suppose - but the bogs are just as vile as in any teeny local court. They smell positively Dickensian which I suppose adds an [...]

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