We would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas! Our posts may slow down a little over the next few days, but in the meantime, please feel free to browse around the site and make yourself at home, on any number of soft, fluffy sofas we have left lying around for you on the blog….

Why not check out our Children In The Vine? It’s a serialised drama based on real cases we have worked on and some of the things we’ve written about defy belief – except that they are all real and happened in the real world.

Or have a browse through our growing Encyclopaedia on Family and The Law, for interesting articles and varied views on the system, all written without masses of scary jargon.

If you feel like a little reassurance that the system is not all bad, why not take a look at some of our Judges of the Week – nobody’s perfect, but these judges come close.

And finally, if you want to press your earlobe to our chest to hear the faint sound of a heartbeat, why not come on over to our Twitter feed, where we will be tweeting throughout the week about all sorts of things, most of them Christmassy!

As always our thoughts go out to those families who will be without their children and grandchildren this year. We are thinking of you and hope that 2014 is a better year, filled with hope, happiness and good health for you all.

With warmth,

Natasha