Children arbitration overview

The Scheme

15 years ago a number of family lawyers got together and thought that it may be sensible to mirror our colleagues in the civil litigation world by considering the idea of arbitration in the family law context.

In 2010 the idea gained momentum and led to the launch of the IFLA (Institute of Family Law Arbitration) Scheme for financial cases in April 2012. Since that time 220 financial arbitrators have been trained and over 90 financial arbitrations undertaken.

To find out more about the Scheme and to search for an arbitrator information can be found on the IFLA website the Resolution website and www.familyarbitrator.com.

Judicial encouragement

We are now deemed to be world leaders in family law arbitration! Much of the success can be attributed to the judicial support and encouragement we have seen in a number of cases:

• In W v M (TOLATA Proceedings) (Anonymity) [2012] EWHC 1679 (Fam) [2013] 1 FLR 1513 Mr Justice Mostyn said: 'where parties are agreed that their case should be afforded total privacy there is a very simple solution: they sign an arbitration agreement....

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