Creating paths to family justice: Briefing paper and report on key findings

Abstract

This report sets out the findings of of work undertaken as part of an ESRC Impact Accelerator Account project where the academic authors worked with policy makers, relationship charities and family practitioners to put the findings from the academic study Mapping Paths to Family Justice into practice in the new family justice landscape to help fill the access to justice gap following the withdrawal of legal aid for legal advice and representation in most private family law disputes. It looks at how online tools and programmes and better family mediation practice might be achieved and draws on the expertise of the stakeholders alongside research evidence