Series 1, Episode 7: can Covid-19 invalidate a financial agreement, a sad case about a mother's factitious disorder and can social workers be activists?

Bailii cases

HW & WW (Covid 19 pandemic: set aside a financial remedy consent order?) [2021] EWFC B20
X (Factitious Disorder) [2021] EWFC 46

Book/podcast/talk recommendations

Can social workers be activists? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugci83jWkyg

‘An onlooker at someone else’s social event’: a mother’s experience of the court https://openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2021/06/07/an-onlooker-at-someone-elses-social-event-a-mothers-experience-of-the-court/

Let’s talk about: menopause at the Bar https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/let%27s-talk-about-menopause-at-the-bar

Tweet by Sarah Langford https://twitter.com/wigsandwords/status/1401828807288537089?s=20

Counsel magazine feature https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/professionally-embarrassing

How to get a Bar pupillage? Persistence and a bit of luck https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-to-get-a-bar-pupillage-persistence-and-a-bit-of-luck-flq7rnvbt

Tweet of the week

https://twitter.com/Mr_Considerate/status/1402245120070664193?s=20

https://twitter.com/_JasvirSingh/status/1400042678977499140?s=20

With thanks to Kimberley Kenyon (@youcanbelostdesigns on Instagram) for the podcast artwork and to Benjamin Gladman for the podcast music https://benjamingladman.bandcamp.com/

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