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The Law Show: What Next for the Family Courts?

What next for the Family Courts?

19/10/2010

What Next for the Family Courts?

BBC Radio 4 - The Law Show, What Next for the Family Courts?

Joshua Rozenberg speaks to the head of the Family Court Sir Nicholas Wall.

In the first of a new series Joshua Rozenberg examines the problems facing the family courts, and speaks to the Head of the Family Court Division Sir Nicholas Wall.

The family justice system has been criticised from all angles. It's been described as a slow, bureaucratic system that is bursting at the seams leaving families torn apart by its unfriendly and adversarial nature. In the first of a new series of Law In Action Joshua Rozenberg speaks to the Head of the Family Court Division Sir Nicholas Wall about what the future holds and how the system can be changed to help those caught up in it.

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