Early advice key to cutting family backlog

Dominic Raab is in the market for something ‘drastic and bold’. Our new justice secretary is concerned that, for family cases not involving safeguarding or domestic abuse, ‘it should not be so easy just to say we will go to court’.

Appearing before the Commons Justice Committee last month, he added that while these were ‘sad and sometimes tragic family break-up matters’ that often involve children, ‘we want to make better use of ADR and mediation, and we need to reconcile the incentives for both going to ADR and going to court.’

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