President Of The Family Division: Relaunching Family Mediation

On 28 September 2022, the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, gave the John Cornwell Lecture 2022 to the Family Mediation Association Conference (FMAC). In his speech he referred to a speech he had given in October 2021 in which he had stated that the number one priority for him during the remainder of his term as President was to achieve a reform of the approach to the resolution of private family law disputes.

The President referred to the report ‘What About Me?’ (published in October 2020) from the Family Solutions Group (FSG), a spin-off from the President’s Private Law Working Group, and said that his aim was to use that report as the blueprint for radical change and to do all that he could to press for its recommendations to be implemented.

It was a real boost to see The Divorce Surgery referenced by the President in his speech, in which he refers to the One Couple One Lawyer process we pioneered as being one of a number of initiatives to shape the future of Family Justice.

You can read the speech in full here.

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