Don’t Panic! The HUB is HERE!!!

Stand down everyone. The impending crisis has been averted by a little purple super hero of a website. No – Not Fathers 4 Justice, something with a rather broader appeal. Ladies and gentlemen, mothers and fathers, batmen and wonderwomen, I offer you the much promised, much trumpeted….* drum roll *…Sorting out Separation Hub. * deflating [...]

Family Justice Narratives : No. 6

This is the sixth of the Family Justice Narratives. You can find out what the Family Justice Narratives are all about and how to get involved here. This narrative is in the format of an email addressed to me, and comes from Brian, a social worker. NARRATIVE NO 5 : SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE Familoo, Started reading [...]

Book Review : Making mediation work for you – a practical handbook

Making mediation work for you – a practical handbook Kate Aubrey-Johnson with Helen Curtis (LAG, 2012) As someone who has recently trained as a family mediator I was keen to review this handbook. It contains a wealth of useful explanatory material about mediation in general, and about the way that mediation operates in particular areas [...]

Upside Down on Mediation

The serendipity of twitter led me recently to a blog post entitled “Family Law: Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution – The Role of a Barrister“. Being a family barrister and mediator this seemed like something of a “must read”. It is written by a barrister from Brisbane, Australia where there are many similarities with our [...]

Unacceptable Delay

As we move into June I am reminded of a letter I wrote to Jonathan Djanogly on 8 June last year, which has so far gone unacknowledged. It read: Dear Mr Djanogly, Family Courts without a Lawyer – A Handbook for Litigants in Person I am pleased to enclose with this letter a copy of [...]

Family Justice Narratives : No. 3

This is the third of the Family Justice Narratives. You can find out what the Family Justice Narratives are all about and how to get involved here. NARRATIVE NO 3 : ANONYMOUS PROVINCIAL BARRISTER Tell us where you fit in (solicitor, barrister, social worker, guardian, judge, researcher, court staff, something else) I’m a Barrister. It’s a job [...]