Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 28 June 2011.
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
2 The current system and the case for change
The family law context
Overview of the current system
Private law
Public law
Delay
The impact of delay
Data
3 The Family Justice Review Interim Report
Background
The Review's approach and its interim conclusions
The focus of the Interim Report
Costs
4 Underpinning principles
The "best interests of the child" principle
The Australian experience
Our evidence
The Family Justice Panel recommendations
5 Mediation and other means of preventing cases reaching court
Number of cases reaching court
Family Group Conferences
Other means of diverting public law cases from court
Signposting
Resources
Mediation
Current System
Practice Direction
Training
The effectiveness of mediation
Potential for greater use of mediation
Domestic violence, safeguarding and the voice of the child
Domestic violence and safeguarding
Voice of the child
Proposed changes to legal aid
Interim Report
Towards compulsory mediation?
6 Cafcass
History
Delays
Resilience
Management
Self-employed guardians
Frontline and non-frontline staff
Draft Operating Manual
Service Cafcass provides to children
The case for major change
7 Courts
Case management
Litigants in person
Numbers
Impact
Experience
Cross-examination by litigants in person where there are allegations of sexual abuse
8 Expert Witnesses
A shortage of experts?
Unnecessary reports?
Case management and expert witnesses
Legal Services Commission
9 Media and public access to the family courts
The Children, Schools and Families Act 2010
Openness in the family courts—the way forward
Children's view of transparency in the family courts
Increasing public confidence in the family court system
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of printed written evidence
List of additional written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament
Oral and written evidence 16 November 2010 25 January 2011 1 March 2011 22 March 2011 26 April 2011 10 May 2011 Written evidence Additional (Unprinted) Written evidence
16 November 2010
25 January 2011
1 March 2011
22 March 2011
26 April 2011
10 May 2011
Written evidence
Additional (Unprinted) Written evidence
