My nicely wrapped copy of Family Law landed on my desk today (yes, I am a geek at my desk on a Saturday, and yes I am a double geek that I actually like reading this stuff!).

 Lots of interesting stuff this month, so I thought I would give you a quick run through.

First off - the lastest on Domestic Violence.

On the Comment page, there is a piece written by District Judge Millward, the President of the Association of HM District Judges.   She raises the concern that the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004, brought into force on 1st July 2007,  simply isnt working.  The idea behind it

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