Actually, the only thing my cat has is fleas. Cat sized ones. But yes, I have been uncharacteristically silent on the blogging front. I am so concerned that I might lose my blogging mojo if I don’t write something soon that here I am. Just. I have a whole to do list of blogs I’m desperate to write. Right now though I’m practically nodding off, face in keyboard, so you just get the list of things I might write if I ever have the time :
  • audio-recording social work and CAFCASS interviews with parents – why not?
  • human rights act damages claims
  • recent cases – judicial attitudes to LiPs
  • recent cases – legal aid
  • recent cases – robust criticism of failures of first instances judges, local authorities and others
  • Freud does Frozen
In the meantime let me leave you with this question which I posed earlier on twitter : what is WITH the new fad for referring to Mr Justice Mostyn or Ms Justice Russell or Mrs Justice Theis as Justice Mostyn or Justice Russell etc?? Where has this new simplified mode of address come from? I have seen it all over the place  – on twitter, on Linkedin, in articles online – and not just in the mainstream media who traditionally prefer “Top Judge” for anything above Circuit Judge level – this is people within the legal community. Has there been an edict or new style guide? Makes them sound like Magistrates if you ask me (who we are now required to call “Lay Justices” but who are often shortened to “Justices” when not being referred to as “Magistrates”). zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sorry. That was my forehead typing…… Quite literally #headdesk Off to bed to dream of blogs I may never write….