SESSION 1
Pre-trial strategies for early family case resolutions: comparing our courts’ efforts to achieve diversion from trial in family law
We’re opening the conference with an important conversation about keeping families out of trial where appropriate.
The panel will come together to share their perspectives on early resolution, pre-trial processes and strategies across the region for resolving family disputes before they reach a full trial.
This is a rare opportunity to hear what works, where the challenges lie, and how lawyers and FDR professionals can help families move toward earlier resolution.
With the additional time now built into the program, we’ll be able to go well beyond a traditional panel discussion and explore these issues in much greater depth.
SESSION 2
The impacts of separation and conflict on children & how the preferences of a child can be heard.
Our second extended session will bring together the issues we originally planned to explore in two separate sessions on the impact of separation and conflict on the child, followed by options to hear the preferences of the child.
The result is a deeper and more comprehensive conversation about the child’s voice in family dispute resolution, from the impact of conflict on children and practical solutions about when, how and by whom their views and preferences should be gathered and brought into the process.
We’ll look at emerging research and practice, screening and preparation, the role of the FDR professional, and approaches being developed in different jurisdictions.
And, importantly, we’ll have the time to really dig into the difficult questions that arise in practice.
Two extended sessions. Four Atlantic provinces. A focus on practical strategies and meaningful discussion.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
