Family law judges at breaking point, going from one ‘horrific’ case to the next

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

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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

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Senator Larissa Water’s gender politics versus fair Family Court outcomes

  Corrine Barraclough 27 August 2020 5:18 PM “The important thing is not to stop questioning,” said Albert Einstein. Can we please apply this simple logic to the religion of feminism, which has re-wired human beings to question precisely nothing? You may not expect much sense from Larissa Waters, deputy leader of the Greens. But,

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Caught red handed –

Men’s Aid Just another WordPress.com weblog Skip to content HOME ABOUT ← Robert Emery and Marsha Kline Pruett Posted on April 30, 2016 by rwhiston | Leave a comment Robert Emery and Marsha Kline Pruett might as well run up the white flag now for all the good they are doing for the social sciences and children. Not content with labelling others who oppose

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The ‘profound shift’ under way in Australia’s family law courts

Sydney Morning Herald By Michaela Whitbourn August 19, 2020 — 12.00am Share Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size It is not often a court strongly discourages litigation, but the family courts in Australia are far from typical courts. The disputes are emotionally complex, protracted, and parents or children may be at grave risk. There

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Mother kills her daughter, then herself in Silverwater Jail

She escaped justice for killing my girl Brisbane Courier Mail Sunday 16 August 2020 LINDA SILMALIS A LITTLE over a year since Tamara Gurney was accused of murdering her three-year old daughter, the 41-year-old has been found dead in her cell after apparently taking her own life. Gurney, who was on remand in Silverwater Women’s

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Queensland woman charged with murder after allegedly drugging, cutting husband

7NEWS Published: Tuesday, 18 August 2020 4:57 pm Warren Barnsley and Elliott Chipper A Queensland woman has been accused of drugging then murdering her husband of 45 years. Judith Ann Venn, 66, appeared in Cleveland Magistrates Court on Tuesday. She has been charged with the murder of her 64-year-old husband Lance Hilton Venn in an

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Can a Judge be sued for sending someone to jail?

This proposed lawsuit could test whether a judge can be sued for sending someone to jail BACKGROUND BRIEFING BY HAGAR COHEN Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp PHOTO Federal Circuit Court Judge Salvatore Vasta has had a string of cases overturned over issues of procedural fairness. WWW.QLDCRICKET.COM.AU In what would later be described by the full bench of the Family Court as

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