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Family mediation

26 September 2014
Issue: 7623 / Categories: Legal News , Mediation , Family
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Fault lines in family mediation

The Family Mediation Task Force Report published in June was flawed, not least because it was produced by a committee with barely any full-time family mediators on it, writes Graham Lyons, consultant at Family First Mediation Service, in an open letter to justice minister Simon Hughes MP in NLJ this week.

Lyons says the report omitted to recommend increasing awareness among GPs, health personnel and housing departments, while its recommendation for a free first session is “flawed” because clients seldom negotiate at that stage. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

FOIL—Bridget Tatham

FOIL—Bridget Tatham

Forum of Insurance Lawyers elects president for 2026

Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair

Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair

Partner joinslabour and employment practice in London

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor

NEWS
Solicitors are installing panic buttons and thumb print scanners due to ‘systemic and rising’ intimidation including death and arson threats from clients
Ministers’ decision to scrap plans for their Labour manifesto pledge of day one protection from unfair dismissal was entirely predictable, employment lawyers have said
Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
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