Posted Yesterday at 2:31pm, updated Yesterday at 5:38pm Families are waiting up to three years for their cases to be heard, under Australia’s broken family court system.(ABC News) Family law judges are buckling under crippling workloads, and ever-increasing wait times are putting the nation’s most vulnerable women and children at risk, a Senate inquiry into Australia’s family law
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Impermissible editing’: federal judge changed reasons for decision
July 17, 2020 — 12.04am A Federal Circuit Court judge removed a threat to imprison parents who did not follow his family law orders when he released a written version of his oral decision, an appeal court has found. The decision has renewed calls for a federal judicial watchdog to investigate complaints against judges at
Judge rebuked for ‘cruel, insulting, humiliating’ conduct in family law trial
September 2, 2020 — 5.20pm A judge presiding over a family law case denied a father a fair trial by bullying and demeaning his lawyers in court, an appeal court has ruled. In an extraordinary case, the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia listened to audio recordings and read transcripts of Federal Circuit