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Lawyers and Mediators
The Brave New World of Services for Separating Families
Authors: MACLEAN Mavis, EEKELAAR John
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Publication date: 05-2018
176 p. · Paperback
176 p. · Paperback
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Do lawyers make matters worse, or do they provide information, advice and
support which can help to prevent disputes arising or manage them when
they do? Do mediators enable parties to communicate and reach agreements
tailor-made to their needs? Or working outside the legal framework, do
they find it difficult to protect weaker parties and access expert advice?
What happens when lawyers become mediators?
This book will describe the structure of service provision and the day-to-day work of lawyers, mediators, and lawyer mediators, drawing on empirical work carried out between 2013 and 2015 immediately after the recent changes to the management of divorce and separation within the family justice system. The reduction in legal aided help in 2013 and the failure of mediation to fill the gap in 2014–15 have given rise to a difficult debate.
This book aims to provide an account of some of the practical effects of these policies through a description of the daily work of practitioners in the sector. It raises the question of whether we need to choose between traditional legal services and the new processes of private ordering or whether intermediate positions might be possible.
This book will describe the structure of service provision and the day-to-day work of lawyers, mediators, and lawyer mediators, drawing on empirical work carried out between 2013 and 2015 immediately after the recent changes to the management of divorce and separation within the family justice system. The reduction in legal aided help in 2013 and the failure of mediation to fill the gap in 2014–15 have given rise to a difficult debate.
This book aims to provide an account of some of the practical effects of these policies through a description of the daily work of practitioners in the sector. It raises the question of whether we need to choose between traditional legal services and the new processes of private ordering or whether intermediate positions might be possible.
Family and socio-legal lawyers
Mavis Maclean is co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Oxford
University and Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
John Eekelaar is Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy.
John Eekelaar is Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy.
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