August 2024
Meet the bobsledding chief justice shaking up the courts
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia head Will Alstergren might have had a very different career if his sporting ambitions had been fulfilled.
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- Michael Pelly
November 2022
Fifty worst cases in 10 days: how the Family Court fixed itself
The court was dealing with entrenched conflicts lasting up to six years. Then judges were flown in with a mission to sort them out.
- Michael Pelly
Family violence vastly underreported: chief justice
A landmark program for “high-risk” cases is being extended after revelations that family violence in Australia is vastly underreported.
- Michael Pelly
July 2021
Splitsville for divorce lawyers Coote and Dickson
We hope their divorce is as unexcruciating and inexpensive as they’ve made everyone else’s.
- Joe Aston
May 2021
Chief Justice sets family law targets after funding boost
The Chief Justice of the Family Court has set ambitious targets on the back of a big budget funding boost.
- Michael Pelly