Pink Tape / a blog from the family bar

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...

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 that it remains...

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...

I’m away at the moment, trying to decompress after another year that can be best described as a mixed bag. Some joy, some loss, much hard work.
But as the clock strikes midnight at the end of 2025 I will shed one hat and put on another. I will stop being the Chair of the Transparency Project, and become (as if by magic) the Vice Chair of the FLBA....