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Debate between Jim Cunningham and Lord Clarke of Nottingham(12 years, 9 months ago)
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Mr Clarke
In family justice we are placing much more emphasis on mediation, which should be much more comfortable for all the clients and will lead to a much easier and less traumatic resolution of many disputes. We are putting more money into mediation and more money into training for mediation. We should remember that the purpose of this public service is to resolve disputes with the minimum of cost and time and to take all the emotion out, so far as is possible, of these difficult family cases. Access to justice is access to the most civilised way of resolving disputes. Access to justice does not depend only on how many lawyers the taxpayer pays for to go into adversarial litigation on every such issue.
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)
11. What recent representations he has received on the treatment of victims of domestic violence in the criminal justice system.