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If mediation's the answer to everything, what's the question?
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This article was written in support of Resolution's fourth Family Dispute Resolution Week running from 23-27 November 2015.
This awareness-raising week aims to highlight the alternatives to court for separating couples and their families. Support the campaign on Twitter using #childrenfirst #ResolutionWeek and #familylaw.
The Ministry of Justice still hasn't announced the deal it's reached with the Treasury to cut its budget ahead of the autumn statements. But the pressure's on. We're closing courts losing judges and we've done away with state financed access to justice. We're in the last chance saloon so far as maintaining anything approaching a credible system of civil justice is concerned. So time to march as many people as possible away from the centre of operations in the hope that they'll be able to mediate their way out of their problems.
Family mediation has been at the front line of cost-saving strategies for the Family Court for years. Governments can't do enough to promote it. When I trained as a mediator in 1997 it was to be in the vanguard...
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