Posted in barrister, blogging, children, family, stuff on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s hard to reach this keyboard with the babber in a sling on my chest…but darn it that’s not the toughest thing I’ve done in the last 3 weeks…Quick - while he’s sleeping - BLOG a BLOG…
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Sigh…It’s hard to keep track of events in the legal world when I am (quite literally) drowning in pooey [...]
Posted in barrister, legal myths, public funding on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
In November 07 the Bar Standards Board published the results of a piece of commissioned MORI research on Perceptions of Barristers. Somewhat shamefully I have failed to comment on it before now and it was only when a review of the report appeared in this month’s Counsel magazine that I have been galvanised into action [...]
Posted in barrister, blogging, courts, family, flexible working, professional conduct on February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i am watching with dismay my declining hit stats on this blog, no doubt somewhat connected to my almost complete failure to post anything newsworthy or interesting in the last several weeks (or longer if i’m honest)…the fact is that sometimes the day to day to-ing and fro-ing at the family bar and the pressures [...]
Posted in barrister, stuff on January 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I notice today that someone has googled ‘lucy reeds barrister’ and has hit upon this blog. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been alerted of at least 2 emails purporting to come from me or someone with my name, one suggesting I run the canadian lottery and one suggesting I am a nigerian [...]
Posted in barrister, children, courts, family, professional conduct, stuff on January 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There is a really interesting article in the December issue of Family Law (Fam Law [2007] 1107) entitled ‘Attachment Problems Among Lawyers’. In it Dr George Hibbert, a consultant Psychiatrist, writes about the issue of attachment in the family courts.
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Ordinarily family lawyers come across attachment theory in expert court reports, particularly in care proceedings, where [...]
Posted in barrister, courts, stuff on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It may have been good from the perspective of my client that I managed to completely dismantle the evidence of an inexperienced expert witness in the space of 10 minutes of extraordinary cross examination (more due to the extraordinary answers than the brilliance of my questions it should be said) and it may have been [...]
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