Here is an edited extract from a speech I gave on 11 July in response to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation paper Transforming Legal Aid, ie reducing provision. Note – I regulate the Bar, I do not represent them, and I base what I say on the statutory regulatory objectives for the legal profession. “Our…
I have come to New York for a few days to deliver a paper on family law at an academic conference. There is a wider spread of opinion about family issues than is common at conferences at home. I have not visited for a number of years, and so quite a few things about the…
Since the very welcome announcement by the Chancellor that there is to be a little tax relief on childcare for working mothers, the Daily Telegraph seems to be running a campaign against them. Day after day, stories and letters about discrmination against stay-at-home mums, as they call them, and nothing presenting the other side. Giving a…
The Good is the wonderful news that finally, after a century or so of women’s liberation, after decades of legislation to ensure women’s full place in the employment market and in higher education – we have got some tax relief on childcare costs. Very little and coming rather late, but it is an important recognition that…
The last few days have seen a number of women’s issues raised, as International Women’s Day and Mothering Sunday were marked. It has all been rather gloomy. In the Lords on Thursday last, there were three questions about women. The first was about women and sport, where it seemed that sport for women was either diminishingly…
