Welcome to another week.
Australia has just announced that it is launching a full scale review into its Family Justice System.
Like the Family Justice System in England and Wales, it has been criticised for being “painstakingly slow and prohibitively expensive” with concerns raised over the way in which victims are treated and children routinely ignored by a system unable to cope with demand.
Federal Attorney-General George Brandis described the review, which will be run by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), as “necessary and long overdue”.
Brandis goes on to say:
“The review of the family law system will be broad and far reaching, focusing on key areas of importance to Australian families…
These include ensuring the family law system prioritises the best interests of children, best addresses family violence and child abuse, and supports families, including those with complex needs, to resolve their family law disputes quickly and safely while minimising the financial burden.”
Advocates of the review are concerned that it might be dominated by cost cutting issues, and are hoping that access to justice and the safety of victims and children in the family law system are prioritised.
Opposition members in Australia are calling for urgent action to improve the system immediately and cross bench senator Pauline Hanson, a vocal campaigner on improving the family law system has called on the government to abolish the Family Court altogether.
Our question to you then, is just this: would you like to see a full scale review of the Family Justice System in England and Wales?
Researching Reform 
absolutely and without question and as fast as possible !
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Yes I would like to abolish the family courts and leave crimes against children to the police and the criminal justice system (innocent until proved guilty etc).
Social workers could go back to the task they were formed for,supporting families with problems and heling them stick together !
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Hell yes! Long overdue. Shared wherever I can as usual xx
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All is not what it seems in Australia either.
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An unequivocal YES, if it leads to fundamental and far-reaching reform. Parents have been treated as criminals when there has been no crime, for far too long, ‘on the balance of probabilities’. On balance, the probability is, too often, that a parent will lose contact with their child or children through forced adoption or being excluded from having any contact. The present system is often barbarous, inhuman, and cruel. Change cannot come soon enough!
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Absolutely we should have that in the UK too.
the problem would be who would undertake it and what would they leave out of the check list. quite a lot i would think.
the implications of widespread wrongdoing could run into Billions in damages.
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Funnily enough I have become SOOO disillusioned that I don’t even think a ‘full scale review’ would make any difference. But maybe we could contribute to it with our first hand experience of hundreds of cases?
Which reviewer would come up with the recommendations that the Council of Europe report made in 2012 re Family Courts and Human Rights?
http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=19220&lang=en
And which reviewers would admit to what this report says about ‘abusive practices’ that are standard in the UK?
http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-DocDetails-EN.asp?fileid=21567
Which reviewer would get policy makers to reverse the trend of rising statistics?
https://www.change.org/p/eu-parliament-abolish-adoptions-without-parental-consent/u/16651694
I guess as long as there’s LIFE, there’s HOPE!
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