Family law report shows marked contrast in adversarial and non-adversarial processes | John-Paul Boyd

By John-Paul Boyd (April 10, 2018, 8:42 AM EDT) -- The Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family has just released a new report comparing the expense, efficiency and efficacy of different resolution processes in family law disputes. The study was undertaken with the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, as a part of the forum’s seven-year Cost of Justice project, and examined the views of 166 lawyers practising in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia on collaborative negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation....