Whats the meaning of the pink ribbon on law files

[Surreylass]

why the use of pink ribbon?

[almcd007]

When I worked as a Legal Executive several moons ago - we had Pink ribbon for Counsel's (barristers) instructions - we used to sew up accross the corner instead of stapling. I was told it goes back to tradition and there was no real reason for it - but looked neat and tidy.

We used Green ribbon for County Court Proceedings.

[loonytunes]

Tradition, from the old parliamentary practice of binding documents with coloured tape to denote their purpose. As in "Too much red tape". They had no staplers in those days