Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues
Roberts, Marian / Moscati, Maria Federica / Allport, Lesley / Barlow, Anne / Bramwell, Lorraine / Conneely, Sinead / Fenn, Sandra / Hall Dick, Anne / Hunter, Rosemary / Hutchinson, KC, Anne-Marie / Lake-Carroll, Angela / O'Shea, Roisin / Robinson, Neil / Saunders, Lesley / Sims, Andrew / Stylianou, Katherine / Whatling, Tony / Wilson, Barbara / Webley, Lisa
The modern emergence of mediation in the West in the 1980s represents a profound transformation of civil disputing practice, particularly in the field of family justice. In the field of family disputes mediation has emerged to fill a gap which none of the existing services, lawyers and courts on the one hand, or welfare, advisory or therapeutic interventions on the other, could in their nature have filled. In the UK mediation is now the approv...