What's the difference between a barrister and a solicitor (version 2.0) pinktape.co.uk/uncategorize...

Stop referencing fake case citations, judges warned www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/stop-re...

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

Serious debate here. I’m on the side of “why not just buy another jar of marmite for work”? Also, I speak from experience when I say that travel with emergency marmite supplies in your hand luggage will result in confiscation by airport security (apparently its a liquid)…

Obituary of Sir James Munby by Sir Nicholas Mostyn, wonderful as much for the non-legal asides as for the cases - "he always described himself as a passionate ferro-equestrian" - and for this: "a kind, witty, and deeply compassionate human being" financialremediesjournal.com/sir-james-mu...

Great obituary of one of the great judges. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

Husband keeps making jokes about squirrels (as in “Look a squirrel!”) and he’s not wrong…I was found pacing the kitchen last night at 9pm insisting I NEEDED SCREWS TONIGHT or I couldn’t finish it before hunting in all the places where old screws, buttons and paperclips congregate (did not find any).

I be fixin’ things this morning…originated in me deciding yesterday that I needed to tidying up the craft/crochet stuff strewn all over the house - decided to use mum’s old sewing box. But then I remembered it’s ancient & falling apart. Cue trip to shop for supplies for a major restoration project…

This is really sad news. There are lots of complements you can pay to Sir James Munby as a judge but, one of the things I particularly liked about him was that he marked his retirement by taking his successor and predecessors on a special at the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway...

Tributes pour in for Sir James Munby, the former head of the family division of the High Court, who died suddenly on new year's days -- in the @lawsocgazette. www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/mor...

I am very sad about this. James Munby was not just clever and driven, he was also funny and kind.

it hasn't gone away! But inverted into Non-Divorce-Day: 'Divorce Day? It's a myth, says law firm' | Law Gazette share.google/5IOW4qGSOBug...

"The Perennial Pantomime of Divorce D Day" A reprise. @familoo.pinktape.co.uk @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk transparencyproject.org.uk/the-perennia... #thereisnosuchthingasdivorceday #DivorceDay #DivorceWeek #DivorceMonth #TransparencyProject #LawFirmPR #PublicRelations #MediaComment

Much sadness, but also some hope for these three little ones: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When I am the leader of the free world the first thing I will ban is overly long customer satisfaction surveys which force you to select one of a finite list of options, when none is applicable. Just spent 15 mins giving feedback on a flight to the online equivalent of a 2 yo. “But why mummy?” x5000

A remarkable number of people, commenting here and at the Guardian, have completely missed the point of this article. The concept of friendship is difficult to define, but we don’t need to define it. Create and develop the relationships that work for you.

Thank god its a satire. For a brief moment I didn’t recognise him and just felt very old and very, very tired. But yeah, this is also how much of the internet now sounds to me.

Went to a remote Scottish island where Kate Winslett apparently has a house. Didn’t see her.

This is awful. Please spread the word about this “payment into court” scam

Recommended (and further to my post here: pinktape.co.uk/rants/lawyer...) : naturalandartificiallaw.com/ai-in-judici...

It's our wedding anniversary, so I wrote this for @petepaphides.bsky.social instead of buying a present: www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

I contributed to @joannahs.bsky.social's article as one of the c.20% of the criminal bar who'd stopped practising between 2018 & 2023. I've felt that legal aid family is now in the place crime was in 2018: the poor pay, increasing workload, appalling conditions & difficulty of cases is all there.

I just don't believe this article. First, the supposed explanation of the barrister's test makes no sense. (This may be the author's fault). What was fed to Grok? If it was the barrister's skeleton, then what was the AI improving? If just the facts, I don't believe it. spectator.com/article/ai-w...

You’ll be hearing more of this… we have never had even an inflationary pay rise since before I started out at the bar 23 years ago. In fact, we had a 10% cut in 2011. And we now do vastly more work per case. For free. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

I don’t know @bearlypolitics.co.uk and just stumbled across this, but the description of leaving another public service, the NHS, is uncannily redolent of the descriptions family legal aid lawyers give of their lives and what this job takes from them…

My crochet ‘thing’ is getting out of hand… it is (I think) rather beautiful, but still unshapely & lacking purpose. It’s spreading like the blob in all different directions & I’m struggling to manage its shape and lay…yet compulsively adding pieces in the hope its final form will somehow emerge!

Chat GPT prompts relied upon as evidence in family court pinktape.co.uk/rants/chat-g...

Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highlight other transparency news.  MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW, TRANSPARENCY etc The Times... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=30160

A bleak case at Cardiff family court involving a mum accused of taking her child with her to buy drugs. walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

This looks fascinating and I desperately want to read it (am also utterly in love with the cover) but I know I have a teetering tower of unread books far ahead of it in the queue…

The thing is taking shape not sure what shape, but its becoming something…possibly a shawl of some sort…?

The romance is just oozing from the page…sadly, I don’t have the necessary helicopter licence and I’m too short (also there is the small matter of being married already and not really approving of men who talk about their wives like they are prize mares) www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerse...

Breaking News: Court of Appeal agrees to hear “important” Mazur appeal zurl.co/7ekvM

Er. Freudian fatfinger there… I not “ai”!

Not sure what ai think about this… www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

Wow. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Lawyer v AI [2025] PT (Fam) – Some thoughts for litigants in person on the risks of using AI in your Family Court case pinktape.co.uk/rants/lawyer...

A very hard earned award. Well done @hansummers.bsky.social and @louisetickle.bsky.social

Misplaced optimism? Lord Briggs on the common law's capacity to protect human rights in the event of ECHR withdrawal publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/14/m...

many thanks to Chris Barnes for his speedy work on grappling with what can be learnt from this Review into the systemic problems - how was Sara Sharif's safety overlooked?

Hubby has come back from supermarket with this, triumphantly presenting it as a gift. Rude!

A fascinating & terrifying read. Really useful reminder of the principles & prerequisites of contempt and the distinction between finding and penalty. Not a family case, but of relevance to family cases - not least cos of the frequency w/ which the FC makes orders for disclosure against police….

For the love of…is this seriously a thing now? What a load of mugs! www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ai-gene...

It’s a….thing! Not a clue what I’m making but now I’ve started I can’t stop!

A veteran activist, who has spent her life campaigning for disability rights, has called on the government to fix the “rotten to the core” social care system, after experiencing “terrifying” treatment during a short stay in a care home. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/safeguarding...

NEW An instance of the royal prerogative Why an Act of Parliament was not needed to remove the title from the former Duke of York By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/an-instanc... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/an-i...

I’ve accidentally come on a conference and got elected Vice Chair. Also, experimented with freeform crochet while listening to the lectures. Quite pleased with the these. They’re like an abstract representation of my brainwaves while absorbing law… #MultiTaskingQueen

Just in from the LAA - another longwinded nothing burger about resumption of normal service. It’s been seven months. Shameful treatment of public servants and human beings.