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The New Zealand Family Court: its structure and process
Author(s) -
BRIDGE CAROLINE
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1989.tb00355.x
Subject(s) - conciliation , adversarial system , family court , family law , law , dispute resolution , political science , welfare , domestic relations , process (computing) , sociology , arbitration , computer science , operating system
SUMMARY. During the last decade the New Zealand Family Court has been central to the transformation of key aspects of Family Law. It has provided a forum for conciliation, thus enabling the resolution of family conflict without recourse to the formal adjudicative process. Conciliation, coupled with a diminution in the use of adversarial techniques by lawyers., have combined to take the bitterness and recrimination out of family breakdown. The Family Court has therefore succeeded in enhancing the welfare of children. These two articles are based on papers given to the Family Courts Campaign Conference, May 1989