Hello again blog.

Sorry to mither you again in the same day, but my brain is on overdrive. 

I found this comment on the site today:

"My sister has worked for years at a solicitors and when I asked why she didnt take further training as she had been offered, her reply was "and put up with the c**p they have to put up with, no thanks".

Which set my little blonde brain whirring again.

Do we get cr*p?

Well, looking back over 5 years spent, in the main, in one Court in the North of England, I tried to recall my experiences.

 In that space of time I have had:

One dad lock me in a room and tell me if I

Dear blog

 Sometimes blog I wonder why I practice family law.  I remember when I was going through uni, watching all the do gooder girlies shouting about their desire to practice family, to bring justice to children and women, having their groany, yawny debates about how wives were stiffed on divorce and how the law didnt work for children. 

Not me blog.  I wasn't one of them.  In fact I used to look at those girlies and not see one bit of me in them - not least of which cos they all wore sandals all the time ; ). 

I wanted to do criminal law...I wanted to swoosh round the Crown Courts in my

Hello Blog.

 I was going to move on from being critical of the court system and yelling out for reform for two minutes when the latest email update from Family Law Week popped into my inbox yesterday.

 Always keen to keep up with what is going on in my little family law world (i.e being nosy) I duly logged on and started whizzing through the updates as usual.

Not having much to do, and because I was looking for law on something I was working on, I ventured into "Judgements".

 Looking down the list, a case with the headline "Application for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, by mother