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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Digital Family Justice: From Alternative Dispute Resolution to Online Dispute Resolution? 2019 by Edited by Mavis MacLean Edited by Bregje Dijksterhuis
This book analyses how mediation has failed to take the place of courts and lawyers even where public funding for legal help has been removed. Instead ODR has developed rapidly. The authors question the speed of this development and stress the need to evaluate whether these services can meet the needs of divorcing families.The book also explores how ADR has fallen behind and what this teaches us about digital justice. It concludes by raising broader questions about the family justice system: is it dispute resolution? Or is it dispute prevention management and above all legal protection of the vulnerable?