Court Initiatives
Designed for the benefit of clients, stakeholders, staff and the wider community
- Cultural Diversity
The Family Court of Australia has had a long interest in, and commitment to the provision of services to meet the needs of its culturally diverse clients.
- Family Violence
The Family Court undertakes a proactive role in developing a wide range of initiatives to assist in the early identification of family violence.
- Less Adversarial trials
The Family Court takes a less adversarial approach to trials. This means that the judge, rather than the parties or their lawyers, decides what information is put before the Court and how the trial is run.
- Magellan project
The Magellan program is specifically designed for cases involving the most vulnerable children. The program aims to deal with these cases as effectively and efficiently as possible.
- Mental health and the integrated client service delivery program
A project which was piloted in the Courts’ Darwin and Adelaide registries to test a variety of approaches to improve mental health support for Family Law Court clients.
- eService
The Family Court provides a range of (online) eServices which have been developed for the convenience of clients dealing with family law matters.
