Pink Tape

It’s the tail end of summer, the cusp of back to school season.

If you are as old as me you will remember what this is quoting.

I was 52 last week, so I suppose that since I’ve had twice as many times around the sun as there are supposed to be weeks in two generations worth of care proceedings, it’s unsurprising if I feel like everything is changing and yet everything stays the sa…

In An observation of a domestic abuse fact finding hearing – a worrying vignette (over on the Transparency Project website) I wrote about what unfolded during a family court hearing I observed as a ‘legal blogger’.

The title of this post relates not to the shockingly long interregnum since my last, but to the news in today (via Jaime Craig, psychologist and member of the Family Justice Council) that the long heralded adjustments to the FPR relating to the instruction

Prince Charles (as he then was) once popularised the phrase ‘grey goo’ (Explained and Americanised by Wikipedia as ‘gray goo’).

Every time I have to explain to a youthful colleague what something now defunct was and how it used to work, I feel a little bit older… This week I thought someone was mistakenly evangelical about the new marketing idea that is corners.

Since judgments arising from the Family Court are not routinely published, what we see in them isn’t necessarily representative of patterns within the Family Court as a whole.

It really was a loooong month, wasn’t it?

in August 2007 right at the start of Pink Tape, I wrote a post called ‘What’s the difference between a barrister and a solicitor?’