These are the stories creating a buzz on-line, in the real world, and in our heads….

• New Child Abuse Trial Guidelines to be published shortly – You can check out the interim guidelines here, and the Consultation which followed. We think Keir Starmer QC’s on the right track, and we’re loving it – it’s about time our courts joined the 21st Century
• Polish Archbishop blames pornography, divorce and Feminism for child abuse – What can we say. This kind of reasoning is The Weirdness to us.
• Lords debate Drugs policy – worthy of note for family law aficionados everywhere as Baroness Butler-Sloss, former President of the Family Division, gets involved as a speaker.