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. (corners being the little cleverly die cut pieces of card, showing a chambers’ logo that one used to wrap around ...

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. But they are one useful source of at least some information about how the QLR system is operating on the ground, and give us a sense of the sorts of issues and themes to look out for. In truth,...

It really was a loooong month, wasn’t it? Death, storms, and the general dank gloom that comes with this time of year. We escaped actual flooding or storm damage here, but it’s not far from us. Quite apart from the weather though, the flow of urgent tasks has been pretty relentless, there is always a remote meeting in the day’s forecast, and my days have been filled with the ...

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?’

Although that post is almost 20 years old it remains one of the all time most visited pages on this blog. Surprisingly, it remains more or less accurate (though it has a surprising number of typos and missed capitals), and it appears tha...

The news broke this week that Sir James Munby, towering figure in family justice, died suddenly on New Year’s Day. I have been thinking since about what to say here about him. He was often the subject of posts on Pink Tape, right the way back to its inception before 2010, and I have spent the morning down a rabbit hole reminding myself of all the things I have written about h...