Casualties of Divorce - Helping the Children of Broken Families





Project Summary:

This project aims to look at the comparative experience of divorce across jurisdictions and appraise the help available to mitigate and minimise the trauma many children experience when parents divorce in different countries. The primary goal of this study is to draw inspiration from successful support facilities available to children from different countries in order to provide benefits to

children who are suffering in the UK, hopefully encouraging the UK authorities to do more to safeguard children from the psychological and social harm which can be caused by fragmentation of the family unit.


Places I will be visiting:

Sydney, Australia

Los Angeles, USA

Toronto, Canada

Vancouver, Canada

New York, USA

Florida, USA

Sunday 23 May 2010

"Sir, this is not Judge Judy, you are my court now-put your hand down"

Dear Blogglets,

Well, the end of my first official week in Sydney and it has been amazing! I have been to lectures, met with the Sydney Law School faculty, sat in Court and have heard a native litigant use the word 'Bonza' in court. Could life be better? Weather has not been amazing- a fair shed load of rain but an epic amount of sunshine in the inbetween periods and a weekend filled with sightseeing and a full 'cultural inauguration'. The benefits of living in a house with a native is seeing the true Sydney in all its glory in addition to the cool touristy stuff. I am as ever extremely impressed with the system over here- quick, expedient, cost-efficient and frankly ruthlessly effective. Dispensing with the formalities and getting to the nitty gritty of the dispute without counsel's intervention at the intake stage seems to be a constructive way of getting beyond the airing of dirty laundry and animosity which is so endemic to the family courts. Am off to spend some time in Sydney's Family Relationship Center this week, after court on Monday and Tuesday so hopefully I will have a more broad understanding of the key workings of the relationship between Australian litigation and mediation after that x

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