Family law system must address waiting lists and overworked judges, committee hears

How courts deal with family law cases should be overhauled, with the current system characterised by lengthy waiting lists, overworked judges and out-of-date surroundings, an Oireachtas Committee has heard.

Representatives of the Bar Council, Treoir, Arc Mediation and the Child Care Law Reporting Project (CCLRP) addressed the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice about reform of the family law system, which Dr Carol Coulter of the CCLRP described as "the poor relation in the legal system for far too long".