The fifth of six programmes about what happens to more than one-third of marriages.
Does the legal system increase the pain and cost of divorce? Richard Tur, who teaches law at Oriel College, Oxford, meets ruined litigants, desperate parents, lawyers, mediators and the Lord Chancellor.
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Producer Robin Gutch
Series producer Jeremy Gibson
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