Self-represented litigants and family violence: A comparison between England and Wales and Australia

Jess Mant

Chapter 17 in Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse, 2024, pp 286-303 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, the author considers the high prevalence of litigants in person (parties without legal representation) in the family courts in England and Wales and Australia. The chapter begins by mapping out the scale and severity of this intersection between family violence and self-representation, before setting out the efforts that have been exerted in each jurisdiction to improve responses to family violence within family court proceedings involving disputes over children, and how these have interacted with efforts to democratise family court proceedings for the benefit of increasing numbers of self-represented litigants.

Keywords: Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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