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FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA ■ ■ ■ Men don’t get the same access to legal representation as women. Legal aid should find a legal aid accepting lawyer for the other party [refer to LACs] A register of pro bono lawyers should be available. Need information to be able to challenge a costs agreement and clear paths for complaints about legal representation [refer to law societies]. Need up to date listings of people practising family law [refer to law societies?] 54
Self-represented Litigants ~ A Challenge: PROJECT REPORT 8 REPORT ON THE VISIONING WORKSHOP 6 & 7 April 2002 1 The project has broadly proceeded under three main streams: ~ Information; ~ Collaboration; and ~ Innovation. 2 The project has concentrated so far, principally upon the first of those two objectives. The third phase of the process involves the concept of bringing together those who could imaginatively contribute to the design of a system that would be fair, not only to self-represented litigants but also to those who are represented – a fair go for all. 3 The first part of the process (which became the Visioning Workshop) was an opportunity for those with vision and imagination to put forward an ideal system to achieve the above objectives. Those ideas and that plan will be put before the Court to determine realistically how they might be implemented. 4 Finally, whatever may have been accepted as the "real" model would be implemented incrementally in accordance with the Court’s broader objectives, plans and budget. This third phase would involve necessarily the recruiting of all relevant stakeholders to the validity of the plans and objectives. 5 It was hoped that the first part of the process – the Visioning Workshop – would provide the outlines or a draft blueprint for the Court against which changes (either brought about by budgetary variations or dictated by circumstances) could be measured. It was also considered that it would be a vehicle for change in itself and would provide an impetus towards the implementation of reforms to produce a fairer go for all participants in the system. To that end the first part of the process was not to be constrained by the obviously realistic considerations of budget and staffing. The marrying of the ideal with reality was seen as the function of the second phase of the program. The third phase would refine that reality to accommodate the legitimate concerns of those who are stakeholders in the system. 55
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