Pink Tape / a blog from the family bar

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....

I had plans this week. To finish my VAT return early, tie up all my loose ends and publish a stellar post on Pink Tape to see out 2025 with. But I was waylaid. Partly by some lurgis, which I have finally vanquished, and partly due to a troublesome phone...

I suppose it was only a matter of time.
Here is a short post by Matthew Lee – a barrister who is tracking all things AI in law so you don’t have to – about how chat GPT prompts were adduced in evidence in family proceedings, much in the same way as internet search history is often relied upon...

There is, in my experience, often much consternation about what is required when a judge makes adverse criticism or findings in respect of a professional or expert witness, and then proposes to publish that judgment, particularly if the proposal is that...