Happy 2nd Birthday! Pink and Proud

Wow – Pink Tape is 2 years old. I confess I didn’t really think this far ahead when I made my first blog entry and landed on the name Pink Tape. I didn’t really think ahead at all – it seemed like a good idea at the time. But it’s been fun, and moderately successful, [...]

The Fruits of Labour

Sigh….So many things I wanted to blog about this weekend and so little time…I have been alternating between watching my amazing boy walk a little bit further and a little bit further (we’re up to six steps in a row before the inevitable face plant), doing a mini ground force on my garden with some very [...]

No time for bloggin’

Just a little note before I rush off…it has been a busy couple of weeks and I foresee that I will not have much time for posting certainly next week at least. It’s one of the features of the job that your diary fills with clumps of work, and my diary is chockablock with hearings [...]

Slipping out of the habit

It’s so easy to slip out of the habit of blogging regularly. It comes easily for months on end and then, a lapse of a week or so and you lose all momentum…busy with lots of other things at the moment (juggling family and court work becomes more challenging when an evil tummy bug is doing [...]

Key Transferable Skills

I’ve been thinking a lot lately (something I hate to do when it’s not billable, but – sigh - needs must) about what I would do with my life if I was forced to abandon the bar as a result of the legal aid cuts. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not there yet – it cost [...]

FLBA Website

The Family Law Bar Association has recently begun to publish press releases and consultation responses to its website here. The website is due to be relaunched soon in its entirety but this is a helpful interim measure.

You can’t have your cake OR eat it…but the cake is the same size as it always was

It wasn’t a good start. They concluded the presentation ten minutes before the advertised start time meaning that I missed it even though I was early. That was the second session and I had missed the first part entirely as I had been stuck at court on just the kind of case that will be [...]

Feelin’ Anti-Social

Just taking a break from Sunday night work…thinking back over my weekend I realise I worked most of Friday evening, some of Sat morning, a couple of hours this morning and now am back at it. Have managed to do most of my work when baby is in bed but some weekends it’s a challenge fitting [...]

Family Justice Under Threat

I want to publicise the disastrous proposals to swipe legal aid in family cases. Not just because it will hurt my pocket, but because it is going to have long term and serious consequences for the families who most need the help of the family justice system, which I do not think government, the LSC, lawyers [...]