It was officially recommended that the South African Family Court should be modelled reasonably closely on, inter alia, the Australian Family Court. Since its inception this court has had a social component which emphasized the importance of counselling and conciliation in divorce matters. Over time this court also started to respond the new wave of interest in divorce mediation. In addition, family law legislation of the past 30 years provides strong evidence of the Australian government’s commitment both to making alternatives to litigation available for the solution of disputes surrounding family breakdown and to strongly encouraging separating spouses to avail themselves of these alternatives before resorting to litigation. The most imp...
Recent legislation passed by the South African Parliament has sharpened attention on the importance ...
Cicero asserted in De Legibus some two thousand years ago that the good of the people should be the ...
Under the Australian family law framework mandating mediation since 2006, the role of the family law...
In the first part of this article certain problems with the adversarial system of litigation in fami...
It is often remarked that the adversarial system of litigation is not well-suited to divorce and oth...
D.Litt. et Phil. (Social Work)The Commission of Enquiry in the Structure and Function of the Courts ...
This study highlights the complexities associated with South Africa’s adversarial civil justice sys...
Family mediation has become an important tool in resolving family disputes. Family courts all over t...
For over half a century now, section 2(a) of the Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 has prohibited arbitrati...
The concept of no-fault divorce which became law in Australia in 1975 was part of a revolution in di...
For over half a century now, section 2(a) of the Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 has prohibited arbitrati...
For over half a century now section 2(a) of the Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 has prohibited arbitratio...
Both Western-styled mediation and African-styled mediation are practised in South Africa. Each of th...
This paper provides an overview of the development, operation and success of Australia’s child suppo...
The central aim of this thesis is to explore how the service provided by solicitors is currently ope...
Recent legislation passed by the South African Parliament has sharpened attention on the importance ...
Cicero asserted in De Legibus some two thousand years ago that the good of the people should be the ...
Under the Australian family law framework mandating mediation since 2006, the role of the family law...
In the first part of this article certain problems with the adversarial system of litigation in fami...
It is often remarked that the adversarial system of litigation is not well-suited to divorce and oth...
D.Litt. et Phil. (Social Work)The Commission of Enquiry in the Structure and Function of the Courts ...
This study highlights the complexities associated with South Africa’s adversarial civil justice sys...
Family mediation has become an important tool in resolving family disputes. Family courts all over t...
For over half a century now, section 2(a) of the Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 has prohibited arbitrati...
The concept of no-fault divorce which became law in Australia in 1975 was part of a revolution in di...
For over half a century now, section 2(a) of the Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 has prohibited arbitrati...
For over half a century now section 2(a) of the Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 has prohibited arbitratio...
Both Western-styled mediation and African-styled mediation are practised in South Africa. Each of th...
This paper provides an overview of the development, operation and success of Australia’s child suppo...
The central aim of this thesis is to explore how the service provided by solicitors is currently ope...
Recent legislation passed by the South African Parliament has sharpened attention on the importance ...
Cicero asserted in De Legibus some two thousand years ago that the good of the people should be the ...
Under the Australian family law framework mandating mediation since 2006, the role of the family law...