Family mediation has its place—but only when safety, fairness, and consent are assured. The latest reforms finally recognise what survivors and advocates have long said: without safeguarding, mediation can do more harm than good.

Lasting peace doesn’t come from a signed agreement; it comes from the inner resilience to navigate conflict without losing yourself.

The evidence demonstrates that LNWIs face systematic barriers to engaging with and benefiting from trust law. Language complexity, high costs, and limited access to professional education act as gatekeeping mechanisms.

Nevertheless, trusts provide meaningful financial, protective, and tax-planning advantages for working-class families and small business owners, particularly in the context of family breakdown and debt. Legal professionals and policymakers should work to make these instruments genuinely accessible through clearer statutory drafting, affordable education, and outreach to those who remain excluded from trust law’s benefits.

The Truth is…many truths

In the family court process there are two adversarial truths, well actually many truths if you count all the legal professionals, witnesses, extended family members and any children involved. Therefore, the adversarial process is already fraught with conflict in the face of many truths existing simultaneously.