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New Zealand

H Barwick and others Domestic Violence Act 1995: Scoping Report (Department for Courts and Ministry of Justice, Wellington, 1998)

H Barwick, A Grady and R Macky Domestic Violence Act 1995: Process Evaluation (Department for Courts and Ministry of Justice, Wellington, 2000)

PF Boshier A Review of the Family Court: A Report for the Principal Family Court Judge (Auckland, 1993)

Family Court Caseflow Management Practice Note (Brookers, Wellington, 1998)

A Chetwin and others The Domestic Violence Legislation and Child Access in New Zealand (Ministry of Justice, Wellington, 1999)

F Cram and others Evaluation of Programmes for Mäori Adult Protected Persons under the Domestic Violence Act 1995 (Ministry of Justice and Department for Courts, Wellington 2002)

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A Gray The Role of Counsel for the Child: Research Report (Department for Courts, Wellington, 1988)

G Hall Report 1: The Welfare of the Child: A Literature Review (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1989)

G Hall and A Lee Family Court Custody and Access Research, Report 8: Discussion Paper (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1994)

G Hall, A Lee and A Harland Report 6: A Survey of Family Court Judges (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1993)

G Hall, A Lee and A Harland Report 7: The Lawyers’ Perspective (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1993)

A Harland Report 4: Interviews with Parents About Their Court Experience (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1991)

A Harland Report 5: Counselling Co-ordinators Group Discussion (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1991)

B Hong Report 3: The Views of Counsel for the Child, Specialist Report Writers and Department of Social Welfare Report Writers (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1991)

His Hon Judge B Inglis Practice and Procedure in the Family Court (Legal Research Foundation Family Law Seminar, Auckland, 1984)

A Lee Report 2: A Survey of Parents Who Have Obtained a Dissolution (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1990)

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J Leibrich and S Holm The Family Court: A Discussion Paper (Monograph series no 6, Wellington, 1984)

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G Maxwell and J Robertson Family Court Counselling Services and the Changing New Zealand Family (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1989)

G Maxwell and others A Counsellor’s Perspective on the Family Court and its Clients (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1990)

G Maxwell and J Robertson Moving Apart: A Study of the Role of the Family Court Counselling Services, two volumes: a full report and an overview of the findings and their policy implications (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1993)

G Maxwell and J Robertson Deciding About the Children After Separation: A Client’s Perspective on the Contribution of the Family Court (Department of Justice, Wellington, 1994)

K McMaster and others Evaluation of Community Based Stopping Violence Prevention Programmes (Prepared for the Department of Corrections, 2000)

Ministry of Education The Adult Literacy Strategy 2001 (Ministry of Education, Wellington, 2001)

Ministry of Justice Responsibilities for Children: Especially When Parents Part (Ministry of Justice, Wellington, 2000)

Ministry of Justice Women Living Without Violence: An Evaluation of Programmes for Adult Protected Persons under the Domestic Violence Act 1995 (Ministry of Justice, Wellington, 2001)

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Ministry of Justice and Department for Courts DVA Process Evaluation (Ministry of Justice and Department for Courts, Wellington, 2000)

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M Mowbray Distributions and Disparity: New Zealand Household Incomes (Ministry of Social Policy, Wellington, 2001)

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New Zealand Law Commission Women’s Access to Legal Services (NZLC SP1, Wellington, 1999)

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A Smith, N Taylor and P Tapp Children Whose Parents Live Apart: Family and Legal Contexts (Children’s Issues Centre, Dunedin, 2001)

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Australia

H Astor Quality in Court Connected Mediation Programs: An Issues Paper (Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, Carlton, Victoria, 2001)

S Bordow and J Gibson Report No 12: Evaluation of the Family Court Mediation Service (Family Court of Australian Research and Evaluation Unit Research, Canberra, 1994)

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United Kingdom

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Canada

Alberta Law Reform Commission Research Paper 20 Court-connected Family Mediation Programs in Canada (Alberta Law Reform Commission, Edmonton, 1994)

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TEXTS

C Ahrons The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart (Harper Collins, New York, 1994)

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S Bloch and E Crouch Therapeutic Factors in Group Psychotherapy (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985)

A Diduck and F Kaganas Family Law, Gender and the State (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1999)

D Ellis and N Stuckless Mediating and Negotiating Marital Conflicts (Sage Publications, California, 1996)

R Emery Renegotiating Family Relationships, Divorce, Child Custody and Mediation (Guildford Press, New York, 1994)

M Henaghan and W Atkin (eds) Family Law Policy in New Zealand (2 edn, LexisNexis Butterworths, Wellington, 2002)

E Hetherington (ed) Coping with Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage: A Risk and Resiliency Perspective (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, Mahwah, NJ, 1999)

J Johnston and L Campbell Impasses of Divorce: The Dynamics and Resolution of Family Conflict (The Free Press, New York, 1988)

J Kelly (ed) Empirical Research in Divorce and Family Mediation (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1989)

M McDowell and D Webb The New Zealand Legal System (2 edn, Butterworths, Wellington, 1998)

J McLeod (ed) Family Dispute Resolution: Litigation and its Alternatives (Carswell, Toronto, 1987)

J Metge In and Out of Touch: Whakamaa in a Cross Cultural Context (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1986)

National Research Council Institute of Medicine From Neurons to Neighbourhood: The Science of Early Childhood Development (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2000)

B Neale and C Smart Good to Talk: Conversations with Children after Divorce (Nuffield Foundation, London, 2000)

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ARTICLES

J Arbuthnot, K Kramer and D Gordon “Patterns of Relitigation Following Divorce Education” (1997) 35 Family and Conciliation Courts Review 269

H Astor “Violence and Family Mediation: Policy” (1994) 8 AJFL 3

B Babb “Where we Stand Redux: Another Look at America’s Family Law Adjudicatory Systems” (2002) 35 FLQ 627

M Benjamin and H Irving “Research in Family Mediation: Review and Implications” (1995) 13 Mediation Quarterly 53

L Campbell and J Johnston “Multifamily Mediation: The Use of Groups to Resolve Child Custody Disputes” (1986–87) 14/15 Mediation Quarterly 137

Hon Justice I Coleman “Self-help Centres in the United States and Canada”, a report of a study visit to Canada and the United States, 14 January–14 February 2000, printed at <http://www.familycourt.gov.au/papers>

M Ehrenberg, M Hunter and M Elterman “Shared Parenting Agreements after Marital Separation: The Roles of Empathy and Narcissism” (1994) 62 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 808

R Emery and others “Child Custody Mediation and Litigation: Custody, Contact and Coparenting 12 Years After Initial Dispute Resolution” (2001) 69 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 323

R Erickson and G Babcock “Men and Family Law: From Patriarchy to Partnership” (1995) 21 Marriage and Family Review 31

D Farrar “Litigants in Person – the Story so Far” (2001) 15 Australian Family Lawyer 4

P Feng and M Fine “Evaluation of a Research-Based Parenting Education Program for Divorcing Parents: The Focus on Kids Program” (2000) 34 Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 1

D Fergusson, “The Christchurch Health and Development Study: An Overview and Some Key Findings” (1988) 10 Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 158

M Fineman “Dominant Discourse, Professional Language, and Legal Change in Child Custody Decision Making” (1988) 101 Harv L Rev 727

R Fischer “Children in Changing Families: Results of a Pilot Study of a Program for Children of Separation and Divorce” (1999) 37 Family and Conciliation Courts Review 240

K Foy “Family and Divorce Mediation: A Comparative Analysis of International Programs” (1987) 17 Mediation Quarterly 83

M Geasler and K Blaisure “1998 Nationwide Survey of Court-connected Divorce Education Programs” (1999) 37 Family and Conciliation Courts Review 36

R Geelhoed, K Blaisure and M Geasler “Status of Court-connected Programs for Children Whose Parents Are Separating or Divorcing” (2001) 31 Fam Court Rev 393

C Gray; M Verdieck; E Smith and K Freed “Making it Work: An evaluation of Court-mandated Parenting Workshops for Divorcing Parents” (1997) 35 Family and Conciliation Courts Review 280

T Grillo “The Mediation Alternative: Process Dangers for Women” (1991) 100 Yale L J 1545

A Hawkins and S Allen “Maternal Gatekeeping: Mothers’ Beliefs and Behaviors that Inhibit Greater Father Involvement in Family Work” (1999) 61 Journal of Marriage and the Family 199

E Heatherington, M Bridges and G Insabella “What Matters? What Does Not? Five Perspectives on the Association Between Marital Transitions and Children’s Adjustment” (1998) 53 American Psychologist 167

L Hecht Schafran “Gender Bias in Family Courts: Why Prejudice Permeates the Process” (1994) 17-SUM Fam Advoc 22

J Horne “The Brady Bunch and Other Fictions: How Courts Decide Custody Disputes Involving Remarried Parents” (1993) 45 Stan L Rev 2073

R Hunter “Through the Looking Glass: Clients’ Perceptions and Experiences of Family Law Litigation” (2002) AJFL LEXIS 2

R Ingleby “Court Sponsored Meditation: The Case Against Mandatory Participation” (1993) MLR 441

F Kaganas and C Piper “Domestic Violence and Divorce Mediation” (1994) JSWFL 265

J Kelly “A Decade of Divorce Mediation Research” (1996) 34 Family and Conciliation Courts Review 373

J Kelly “Is Mediation Less Expensive? Comparison of Mediated and Adversarial Divorce Costs” (1990) 8 Mediation Quarterly 15

E Kruk “Promoting Co-operative Parenting after Separation: A Therapeutic/interventionist Model of Family Mediation” (1993) 15 Journal of Family Therapy 235

N Lowe and M Murch “Children’s Participation in the Family Justice System – Translating Principles into Practice” (2001) CFLQ 137

K Mack “Alternative Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice for Women” (1995) 17 Adel LR 123

His Honour Judge P Mahony “Private Settlement – Public Justice?”(2000) 31 VUWLR 225

L Moloney “Do Fathers ‘Win’ or do Mothers ‘Lose’? A Preliminary Analysis of Closely Contested Parenting Judgments in the Family Court of Australia” (2001) 15 Int J Law, Policy and the Family 363

C Menkel-Meadow “Pursuing Settlement in an Adversary Culture: A Tale of Innovation Co-opted or ‘The Law of ADR’” (1991) 19 Florida State University Law Review 1

R Mnookin and L Kornhauser “Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case for Divorce” (1979) 88 Yale LJ 950

J Morris “Women’s Experiences of the Justice System” (1997) 27 VUWLR 649

R Pavone “Do Self-represented Litigants Receive a Fair Trial? The Challenge for the Family Court” (2002) 76 Law Inst Jnl 52

J Pearson “The Equity of Mediated Divorce Settlements” (1991) 9 Mediation Quarterly 179

J Pedro-Carroll and L Alpert-Gillis “Preventative Interventions for Children of Divorce: A Developmental Model for 5- and 6-year-old children” (1997) Journal of Primary Prevention 213

J Pedro-Carroll and E Cowen “The Children of Divorce Intervention Project: An investigation of the efficacy of a school-based prevention program” (1985) 53 Journal Consulting and Clinical Psychology 603

J Pedro-Carroll, E Nakhnikian and G Montes “Assisting Children Through Transition: Helping Parents Protect Their Children From the Toxic Effects of Ongoing Conflict in the Aftermath of Divorce” (2001) 39 Family Court Review 377

J Pedro-Carroll, J Sutton and P Wyman “A Two Year Follow-up Evaluation of a Preventative Educational Program for Young Children of Divorce” (1999) 28 School Psychology Review 467

J Pryor “Family Dissolution: What About the Children?” (1998) 2 BFLJ 310

J Pryor and F Seymour “The Mediation Debate: A Contradiction in Terms?” (1998) 2 BFLJ 261

S Roberts “Alternative Dispute Resolution and Civil Justice: An Unresolved Relationship” [1993] 56 MLR 452

E Schwarz “When ‘Neutral’ Doesn’t Really Mean ‘Neutral’: Louisiana’s Child Custody Laws – An Attempt to Erase Gender Bias in the Name of Neutrality” (1996) 42 Loyola Law Review 365

G Stone, K Clark and P McKenry “Qualitative Evaluation of a Parent Education Program for Divorcing Parents” (2000) 34 Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 25

D Thompson and L Reierson “A Practicing Lawyer’s Guide to the Self-represented” 19 CFLQ 529

R Warshak “Gender Bias in Child Custody Decisions” (1996) 34 Family and Conciliation Courts Review 396

Wellington Community Law Centre “Is the Domestic Violence Act meeting its objects?” Council Brief (Wellington, August 2002)

UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL

M Solomon, Court Management Consultant Achieving Caseflow Excellence Workshop (Department of Justice, May, 1995)

The Carruthers Committee Interim Caseflow Management Report to the Principal Family Court Judge (Judge Carruthers, Wellington)

Department for Courts Wellington Development Court Validation Report (Wellington, July 2000)

Judge J Doogue and Judge PF Boshier A Report to the Principal Family Court Judge, Auckland Family Court Docket Project: A Trial of Early Intervention Processes 9 October 2000–24 August 2001 (Auckland, 2001)

Chief Justice’s Taskforce on Gender Bias Report of Chief Justice’s Taskforce on Gender Bias (The Taskforce, Perth, 1994)

C Coates, Parenting Co-ordinator Boulder, Colorado, USA, presenter “Special Masters and Parenting Coordinators: Tailoring Services for High Conflict Families” pre-conference workshop (AFCC Conference, Chicago, 9 May–12 May 2001)

“People with an Intellectual Disability – Giving Evidence in Court” Committee on Intellectual Disability and the Criminal Justice System, June 2000, on Lawlink, the website of the Criminal Law Review Division of the NSW Attorney General’s Department (http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/clrd1.nsf/pages/dis_report_2)

S Martin Conference Papers – The Judicial Seminar on Gender Equity (Rotorua, 16 May 1997)

R McCann (Speech to the New Zealand Law Society Family Court Conference, Wellington, August 2002)

R Pond “Women’s Experiences of Domestic Violence and the Legal System” (Massey University Masters Thesis, 2002)

C Smart “Changing Family Relationships” Law Conference 2001, Christchurch, New Zealand

M Sullivan, Northern California taskforce on the Alienated Child, presenter of “Special Masters and Parenting Coordinators: Tailoring Services for High Conflict Families” pre-conference workshop (AFCC Conference, Chicago, 9 May–12 May 2001)

“Summary of Seminar Evaluations” in Conference Papers – The Judicial Seminar on Gender Equity (Rotorua, 16 May 1997)

J Williams He Aha Te Tikanga Mäori (unpublished paper for the Law Commission, Wellington, 1998)