Today I endorsed a brief with the following note:

"No orders sought or made. Judge spoke to child and made her 'promise' not to run away again."

On returning to chambers, I received an email saying the child ran away when the social worker took her to a shop for some snacks.

S and I started being For Realz paid by solicitors last month. It's quite dizzying ( Read more... )

It's been rainy most of this week, and there's a chill in the air even when the sun's out. As I was having hair painfully ripped out of my legs and underams this morning, my beautician commented, "Summer seems to be over." I said, "It may come back. Sometimes there's summer in September." "But it will stay cold at night," she said, "I am ( Read more... )

Monday: Kidderminster (Worcestershire ( Read more... )

Today I went to Kidderminster, which is in Worcestershire, on an urgent directions hearing ( Read more... )

I'm second six now! There was some anxiety about getting on my feet -- my practice certificate kept not arriving. I was supposed to begin on 5 April (as I began first six on 5 October) and I sent my application through the previous week. By the beginning of two weeks later, I got anxious enough to phone the Bar Council. Turns out my ( Read more... )

Is it sad that the Winter Olympics are what I'm currently most excited about ( Read more... )

The mum didn't come yesterday either. She sent text messages to the social worker saying she wasn't giving up, just facing facts that her boys weren't coming home, so why should she sit there and have it thrown in her face anymore ( Read more... )

After a weekend of work, a hell of a lot of chocolate, and backing out of the carol service I was supposed to sing in today, I have sent to S something purporting to be a particulars of claim and schedule of damages. Both documents have highlighting and notes all over them indicating things I'm not sure of and which I think need to be checked. I' ( Read more... )

Yesterday, a lot of snow was promised ( Read more... )