Leave family disputes to judges: Law Council calls for Brandis plan to be dumped

Law Council of Australia president Morry Bailes. Picture: Keryn Stevens Nicola Berkovic LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT Sydney @NicBerko A proposal allowing ­social workers and other non-lawyers to ­resolve parenting disputes marks a “radical departure” from existing practices and should be abandoned, the Law Council says. Council president Morry Bailes wants the federal government to scrap the

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Family Court lawyers urged to mediate and dodge ’horrendous delays’

Lawyers in NSW are being urged to make more effort to see family law disputes resolved by mediation amid “horrendous delays” in family law courts. NSW Law Society president Doug Humphreys said the organisation was “campaigning hard for the appointment of more judges to ease the significant delays and backlog of cases” in family law

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Mum on run loses custody

A MUM who tried to take her two children out of Australia on falsely obtained passports, then hid them from their father, can now only see her kids once a month for two hours. The mother forged her estranged husband’s signature on the children’s passport applications, but her plan to take them overseas fell apart

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Post to FacebookEveryday Aussies Silenced by Family Law Investigation PAULINE HANSON’S PLEASE EXPLAIN·TUESDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2018 MEDIA RELEASE Senator Pauline Hanson has written to Attorney-General Christian Porter requesting an urgent meeting to discuss concerns that current stipulations placed on the submission of personal stories to the review of the Family Law Act could be preventing

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Jordan Peterson interview fallout: It’s little wonder men don’t know where they stand

INQUIRER Jordan Peterson faces BBC interviewer Cathy Newman. The Australian 12:00AM January 27, 2018 CAROLINE OVERINGTON Associate Editor Sydney @overingtonc Possibly you have never heard of Jordan B. Peterson, but don’t worry, soon you will. He has written a book and he is coming to Australia in March to promote it, and if you’re missing

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Men are also victims of home violence

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/bettina-arndt-men-are-also-victims-of-home-violence/news-story/da4bc12a017e07e17352cf355b73c680 HERE’S some good news that passed unnoticed late last year — our official statistics reveal that for the past decade there’s been no increase in women being abused by their partners. That was the story that dropped through the cracks when the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced the results of its 2016 Personal Safety

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Corrine Barraclough: Fathers’ Christmas trauma

CONGRATULATIONS one and all: we have failed this year at tackling the broken family law system. Loving fathers, good men, won’t be opening presents with their kids around the twinkling Christmas tree, through no fault of their own. They won’t be eating yummy treats, watching movies, singing carols or playing fun games together. And their

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Family law court costs obscenely high, judge Robert Benjamin says

LEGAL AFFAIRS A Family Court judge has attacked the “obscenely high legal costs” charged by family lawyers and an apparent “win at all costs, concede little or nothing, chase every rabbit down every hole” approach to litigation. Family Court judge Robert Benjamin has referred two lawyers to the legal services watchdog over their “outrageous” and

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White ribbons of truth

Corrine Barraclough  – The Spectator Corrine Barraclough 21 November 2017 3:53 PM A very important question has, so far, remained unasked in the latest round of Bernardi debate. Furious feminists are seemingly baffled as to why Minister for Women, Senator Michaelia Cash crossed the floor to vote for Cory Bernardi’s motion on White Ribbon Australia.

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The Sexual Revolution Turns Ugly

Stephen Baskerville How many intellectuals have come to the revolutionary party via the path of moral indignation, only to connive ultimately at terror and autocracy? ∼ Raymond Aron The Sexual Revolution is now out of control. Initially promising freedom, like all revolutions, it has entered something like its Reign of Terror phase and is devouring its own children.

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