{"id":316,"date":"2006-06-18T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T12:07:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-06-18T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T12:07:14","slug":"adr-compulsory-mediation-in-the-family-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"ADR, compulsory mediation in the Family Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Affairs select committee in a report published this week says that the <strong>Family Resolutions Pilot Project<\/strong> has been a &#8216;failure&#8217; in diverting parents away from the courts; because mediation is not compulsory. They said that there should be a compulsory preliminary meeting with a mediator. <strong>At the moment those seeking legal aid are expected to use mediation but privately funded couples are not<\/strong>. <br \/>The committee took evidence from the President, Sir Mark Potter and other senior judges and officials.<br \/>Full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm\/cmconst.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Affairs select committee in a report published this week says that the Family Resolutions Pilot Project has been a &#8216;failure&#8217; in diverting parents away from the courts; because mediation is not compulsory. They said that there should be a compulsory preliminary meeting with a mediator. At the moment those seeking legal aid are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}