Is the family court a lawyer’s picnic? What to do about your neighbours’ aesthetic challenges, and the life and times of Australia’s first female high court justice.
It’s one of the most emotionally charged areas of the law. Family law cases involve disputes over child custody and personal assets, that can cause great strain on a separating couple. Now family law activists are saying the financial costs of family law cases are too high. The Lone Fathers’ Association has said family law has become a ‘lawyer’s picnic’. But more separating couples are turning to mediation instead of court to resolve their disputes over financial assets and child custody. So is mediation the way for people to avoid the financial costs of family law cases?
Reporter Doug Dingwall
Guests
1. Geoff Sinclair, chair of the Law Council of Australia’s Family Law Section
2. Michael Green, QC, former lawyer and mediator
3. Barry Williams, president of the Lone Fathers’ Association
Mary Gaudron passionately championed gender equality and indigenous rights, ruling on landmark decisions such as Mabo and Wik. She also appeared in the Equal Pay case for the Whitlam Government.
Reporter Justin Ellis
Guests
1. Pamela Burton, author of Moree to Mabo
Intrepid Radio Atticus reporter Anthony Jucha travels to the Kingscliff markets in northern New South Wales to speak to Tom about what to do about his neighbour’s dead tree.
Reporter Anthony Jucha
Guest
1. Tom from Kingscliff
Show Podcast
Radio Atticus 11 November 2010 podcast
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