Pink Tape / a blog from the family bar

Prince Charles (as he then was) once popularised the phrase ‘grey goo’ (Explained and Americanised by Wikipedia as ‘gray goo’). He wasn’t actually talking about AI but about nanobots. AI was merely a twinkle in a tech-bro’s eye at that point, but it...

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 the corner of a skeleton argument before...

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...

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...