The Australian Law Reform Commission this week released its Discussion Paper on its Review of the Family Law System. The Paper distils the wisdom of research about and submissions from and consultations with professionals and recent users of the system. The Discussion Paper paints a vision of...
My comments in a recent blog about the role of coaches in collaborative practice elicited some discussion, so I wanted to explore this further. In thinking about how to convey this piece visually, the image of a conductor came to mind. Although I don’t want...
I was a legal academic for twenty years: teaching, researching and writing about family law and family mediation. I have always sought to integrate theory with practice, and to inform my teaching and research with professional experience and current innovation. So, in addition to being...
Currently the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee is inquiring into the Bill that proposes to introduce a Parent Management System, ‘an innovative forum for resolving simpler family law disputes between self-represented litigants’. The Committee is due to report on 23 March 2018. The Law...
A version of this first blogged on the Australian Dispute Resolution Research Network. It is important for many separating families to have access to cost effective, quick and fair ways to resolve any disagreements about how to distribute their shared assets (and liabilities). It is also...