Chief Justice calls level of family violence ‘a disgrace’

Chief Justice Will Alstergren, who is also Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit Court was speaking on the Gold Coast, while launching a $13.5 million pilot project to identify cases at high risk of family violence.The Chief Justice said he was responding to “recent and careless comments’’ that inferred that FCC judges hearing family law cases was putting children or families at risk. “I have had in recent days complaints from some quite distraught judges from across Australia alarmed at these…



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