Young Lawyers - Kate Gomery: All Work and No Column

As this is meant to be an honest column about life as a junior family lawyer working doing publicly funded work - I may a well be honest and say that I simply have not had the time to write it over the past few weeks. So immersed have I been in my new caseload that the weeks have flown by and I can't quite believe six weeks have now passed since I relocated back to Manchester.

Occasionally when I put my head up for air I get snatches of what's going on out there in the real world and have just about enough time to read around the hot topics to gain an understanding of the general response to each. And it has been pretty busy out there; the LASPO Bill going through the House of Commons (bad) the Family Justice Review being published (good) and the Supreme Court judgment in Jones v Kernott (very good).

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