Projects and Activities
Family Arbitration - The First Five Years and its Future
Date: 30 March 2017
The City Law School hosted a guest lecture by His Honour Judge Cryan (Hon) LLD on the genesis of formal Family Arbitration in this country, including the pivotal role of City, University of London’s Centre for Child and Family Law Reform.
The lecture will explain how it was possible to establish an entirely new mode of binding alternative dispute resolution by innovation and consensus and without additional legislation. The jurisprudential basis of binding family arbitration in financial case and now in children’s disputes will be considered.
The practical implications for family arbitration expanding in such a way that it will ease the burden on the courts and in many cases provide a swifter, cheaper, private and more appropriate way of resolving family disputes.