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Family Law Arbitration: a judicially recognised alternative to the Family Court

Date:3 JUL 2014
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Family Dispute Resolution Facilitator
Some comments extracted from an address by Sir Peter Singer on the occasion of the launch (by courtesy of the Inner Temple) of this book on 24 June 2014.

It is a great honour and pleasure for me to be invited to address the more than 100 of you who have come here this evening to celebrate the publication by the Law Society of Dennis Sheridan's timely book describing the process and procedure of an IFLA Scheme Arbitration for the determination of a post-relationship breakdown financial dispute.

IFLA denotes the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators whose Advisory Committee Chairman HH Judge Donald Cryan has contributed not only prefatory words to this congregation but also a Preface to the slim volume which Dennis Sheridan has written and compiled. Dennis is the senior partner of D R Sheridan LLP and one of the 130 or so experienced and accredited arbitrators who have achieved Membership of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. (A list of these arbitrators is available for inspection at IFLA.org.uk)

I should though just mention the two...

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