Family Law Review update: Vol 7 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Family Law Review includes the following material: “If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine Mandated Pre-action Procedures, Registrar Case Management and Information Sharing” – Judge Joe Harman; “Accommodating Family Law and Culture in a Diverse Society: The Injunction Power and the Jewish Experience” – Graham Segal OAM; “Certain Unions Are Not Marriages: Predicting Outcomes on Separation for Same-sex Couples Married Overseas” – Louise Cooney and Eliza Tiernan; “Family Law Property Settlements: An Exploratory Quantitative analysis” – Christopher Turnbull; Property and Financial Arrangements: “Post-separation Inheritances: Calvin v McTier [2017] FamCA 125” – Anna Parker and Amanda Pearson; The Child Support: “The Child Support Registrar Appearing Amicus Curiae” – Simon Bacon; and Recent Cases: Kent v Kent, Waterman v Waterman, Arthur v Secretary, Department of Family and Community Services, and Tuckson v Elsey.
Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal update: Vol 28 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal includes the following articles: “Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism: The Trojan Horse of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its Practical Implications” – Muhammad Zaheer Abbas and Shamreeza Riaz; “Managing the Inter-cultural Dimensions of a Mediation Effectively – A Proposed Pre-mediation Intake Instrument” – Dorcas Quek Anderson and Diana Knight; “Being the Ladle in the Soup Pot: Working with the Dichotomy of Neutrality and Empowerment in Mediation Practice” – Bornali Borah; “Mediation Confidentiality: Origins, Application and Exceptions and Practical Implications” – Judge Joe Harman; “Design in Dispute Resolution Practice: Tips and Tools” – Helen Shurven and Clair Berman-Robinson; “Mediator’s Proposal and Mediator’s Neutrality: Finessing the Tension” – Mohamed Sweify; “Settlement in Court-Connected ADR and the Constitutional Function of the Judiciary: An Imbalance between two Competing Public Interests” – Michael Windeyer. It also contains Case Notes: “Admissibility of a Statement Made at Mediation – Humphreys v Humphreys” and “Mediation Media Watch” – David Spencer.
Family Law Review update: Vol 7 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Family Law Review includes the following material: “The prevalence of allegations of family violence in proceedings before the Federal Circuit Court of Australia” – Judge Joe Harman; “Another tool in their arsenal? The potential of domestic violence typologies to inform family law alternative dispute resolution processes” – Hayley Boxall and Dr Jason Payne; “The reach and efficacy of s 121 of the Family Law Act” – Sharon Rodrick and Adiva Sifris; Child Support: “Child support and the autochthonous expedient” – Simon Bacon; Property and Financial Arrangements: “Justice, equity and alteration of individual property interests” – Will Stidston and Anna Parker; Practice and Procedure: “The teetering capacity of family law litigants: The risks to mentally ill litigants when the court is unaware they lack capacity” – Bridget Cullen; In the High Court: “Parenting orders, children’s views, order in favour of ‘strangers’: Bondelmonte – Dean Foley; and Recent Cases: Lane v Nichols, Masters v Cheyne, Fewster v Drake, and Russo v Wylie.
Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal update: February 2016
The latest Part of the Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal includes the following articles: “Broadening the traditional use of mediation to resolve interlocutory issues arising in matters before the courts” – Adele Carr; “Should mediation be the first step in all Family Law Act proceedings?” – Judge Joe Harman; “Facilitating systemic outcomes through anti-discrimination conciliation and the role of the conciliator in this quest” – Rosalie Poole; and “Encouraging dialogue between large and diverse groups: the emerging field of facilitation” – John Woodward. It also contains Case Notes: “Developments in the USA – Contractual damages from a breach of a confidentiality clause in a mediation agreement; a lack of good faith in mediation; and mediation media-watch” – David Spencer; and a Book Review: “International Arbitration & Global Governance Contending Theories and Evidence” by Walter Mattli and Thomas Dietz – review by Magdalene D’Silva.