Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Sound Off For Justice

A further excellent video from the Sound Off For Justice campaign. It’s not just access to justice in family cases that will be decimated, as this clip of a sexual harassment related unfair dismissal demonstrates.  

SOUND OFF FOR JUSTICE GOES VIRAL

. This video is EXCELLENT. Do watch it. And do pass it on. It’s important stuff (but then you know that already). It really does bring home one impact that Ken Clarke’s legal aid cuts will have if implemented. An announcement is expected from the government in the next few weeks, so help spread the [...]

Telegraph Poll

Hands up who else just keeps tripping over yet another eye roller of an article in The Telegraph? You don’t even need to buy the thing, people just keep tweeting and facebooking humdinger after humdinger. I don’t want to be constantly confronted with Telegraphisms but I just can’t bring myself to ignore them. This time [...]

CONSULTATION RESPONSE – P.S. TO KEN CLARKE

A point I wish I’d made in my consultation response in respect of the rise of the litigant in person and the impact on access to justice: The family jurisdiction is often thought of (by non-family lawyers at any rate) as law-lite (we know this because chancery and criminal lawyers take especial delight in telling [...]

Unsung Heroes

I used to refer students to the Mary Ward Legal Centre when I was President of the SU at Birkbeck College. They were invaluable and I know helped several of my students facing homelessness or debt problems (most student’s at Birkbeck are mature students, many with families). I’m glad to see they are still doing [...]

Losing Track – four nil?

I’ve been a bit tied up with work of late, and I see that whilst my back has turned the LSC has crashed and burned in yet another JR (thanks LAG Blog)  in respect of their tender process – immigration this time. I wonder how many families could have been provided advice and representation from the [...]

LSC – Not Appealing

The LSC are not appealing the JR decision quashing the family bid contracts. Perhaps they could not secure funding?

Willy Wonka’s Spending Review

At the risk of becoming monotonous, news of the demise of family legal aid is not greatly exaggerated. The headlines yesterday were full of 30% MoJ cuts, with the heft of those cuts falling to be met by shrinkage of the legal aid budget. We will wait until Wednesday to find out quite how bad [...]

Ooh – The Cheek of it!!

Afua Hirsch nails it in this article for the Guardian about the importance of legal aid. But that’s not primarily what this post is about. What has got me back on my virtual soapbox in the middle of my favourite telly programme is the offensive remarks of the Justice Minister quoted in that article. Afua [...]

Bend it like Beckham – LSC Own Goal?

Right – metaphor sufficiently stretched. Sorry. I refer to the title of Nearly Legal’s recent post: LSC: goalposts aren’t moved, just very bendy, which articulates the latest contortions by the LSC.  Thanks Nearly Legal, although it has made my head hurt. Incidentally, solicitors embroiled in the tender debacle may wish to join in the debate [...]

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