Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Hedge v Hog

What odd times we live in. The Guardian reported on Saturday that hedge fund managers are now betting on the outcome of high worth ancillary relief cases by funding the litigation costs of one party in return for a largeish chunk of the prize. Given that this is the type of arrangement which springs up [...]

Legal Disciplinary Practices

Interesting post on the LAG News Blog about the Bar’s approach to Legal Disciplinary Practices. I see the arguments for and against, but am increasingly persuaded that the bar will need to embrace flexibility of format to survive and thrive.

FAMILY LEGAL AID PLANS TORN APART IN DAMNING JUSTICE SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT

Ah, it’s just a roller coaster in this job. You never know what to expect – at court, or in your bank account. Don’t you just love it? Today the Justice Select Committee has blown a great big hole in the bow of the LSC proposals to cut our fees (I’d like to say it was [...]

The Final Straw

Justice Secretary Jack Straw has announced the second tranche of reforms in respect of the opening up of the family courts, reports the Times. It is no surprise that the government has announced its plan to relax the law in respect of reporting restrictions after the widespread disappointment voiced by the media when it realised [...]

Not Pottering

I have it on good authority that the President of the Family Division Mark Potter is tonight going to be delivering some hard hitting remarks about the under-resourcing of the family justice system including the proposed reforms to family advocates at the Hershman / Levy Memorial Lecture tonight. Indeed he has probably already delivered them. [...]

Justice Select Committee Consider Family Legal Aid

The Justice Select Committee took evidence on Family Legal Aid earlier this week. Amongst the speakers were representatives from the FLBA, ALC, NAGALRO and NYAS, the Chief Executive of the LSC. The LSC were subjected to close questioning from the same MPs for about 30 mins regarding the lack of evidence to base for their [...]

Behind Closed Doors – Judicial Shenanigans

The Guardian has lost in it’s attempt to secure details of the identities of Judges found guilty of misconduct or who have been reprimanded. I think maybe I’m missing something because my response to this was a bemused ‘hunh?’. . The Information Tribunal making the decision apparently cited the example of a very senior judge who [...]

House of Lords Judgment: Be More Accomodating

I was thinking it was about time I posted on a recent legal judgment. And so I was just sitting down to type a post about the case of R (on the application of G) (FC) (Appellant) v London Borough of Southwark (Respondents) [2009] UKHL 26 when I saw that Nearly Legal has beaten me to it. In [...]

Legal Aid Rich List

Apologies for the delayed reaction but the MOJ published it’s top ten biggest legal aid earners last week (here). I have been distracted by imagining what I might do with hundreds of thousands of pounds in income and write this post as I bump back down to earth, noticing as I pass that my aged debt is [...]

Not Punny

My husband wants to know if Wall LJ’s Larkin judgment is what they call ‘poetic justice’? (groans) In the words of Basil Brush: Bu-Boom.

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