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January 02, 2009 17:19

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks being ‘mom’ and homemaker (if unpacking numerous moving boxes counts as making-home). its been really rather lovely to be cooped up in our new home up to my elbows in scrunched up newspaper and things I’d forgotten I owned, with the nipper...

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December 17, 2008 09:50

It’s a cheat I know, but look I’m busy moving house so I need a couple of easy posts…Bear with me. Normal service will be restored after the New Year. It may seem unlikely in these times of doom and stagnation, but we have (finally) managed to sell our house and cobble together...

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December 10, 2008 14:53

I’m saddened by the number of comments on posts relating to Baby P I have moderated which advocate doing serious physical violence or killing the perpetrators of abuse. Some are quite graphic. I’m not going to publish them because I don’t think it helps anybody, it disrespects the...

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December 10, 2008 09:41

On the way back through Paddington at the end of a day in the High Court yesterday  I was not astonished to see a rather distasteful piece fronting up the Evening Standard. From reading the information emblazoned across the front page one might reasonably have formed the view that Ms Shoesmith, form...

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December 10, 2008 09:29

Hmm - this post seems to have been waylaid in my ‘drafts’ folder for reasons of PEBCAK. . In Short - see my comments on episode 1, episode 2 and episode 3: more of the same. The final episode can be summarised thus: more shots of people being called to the bar in oak panelled rooms,...

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December 08, 2008 19:13

Further to my post yesterday, there is a piece in The Times today about the new provisions and John Bolch at Family Lore has posted the new court forms which are in use as of today. Resolution are quoted in the article by Frances Gibb, their full press release is here. . The quote in The...

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December 07, 2008 20:36

The remaining provisions of the Children & Adoption Act 2006  (Part I) finally come into force tomorrow (8 December 2008). They amend the Children Act 1989 to enable the court to make contact activity directions and conditions and to enforce breach of a contact order by way of and enforcement ...

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December 05, 2008 16:03

According to the much esteemed ‘Counsel’ magazine, The Bar Council is soon to publish a ‘Guidance and best practice document for women planning to take maternity leave’. It goes like this: ‘1. Don’t. 2. In the alternative, don’t come back.’. ...

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December 05, 2008 15:44

A really interesting article in yesterday’s Times by barrister Martha Cover at Coram. It sets out why the introduction of procedures designed to protect at risk children may have had the opposite effect to that desired - by discouraging the issue of proceedings in favour of focus on the...

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November 30, 2008 08:48

I don’t feel massively inspired to post about episode three - I watched it. And I think the most elegant way to sum up my response would be ‘meh’ (look it up, it’s in the dictionary now apparently). But perhaps that’s not sufficiently informative to make a very...