‘Not accountable to anybody’: Commissioner slams Family Court judges over attitudes to women
Australia's Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Micaela Cronin, has criticized Family Court judges for holding outdated and harmful views regarding women. She argues that these judges lack accountability, making it difficult to reform the system to better protect women and children.
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The critique highlights systemic failures in the judicial handling of domestic violence cases, sparking calls for greater scrutiny of the family law system.
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Share A A A Some Family Court judges still hold horrendous views about women and believe children should be forcibly removed from parents they want to remain with, says the nation’s domestic violence commissioner.
“There are judges who think that at the moment, and they are not accountable to anybody; there is no way to shift that,” Micaela Cronin, the national commissioner for Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission, said.
Speaking to this masthead , Cronin said that, while the reform agenda “is shifting the attitudes and culture of ‘the middle’ of the judges who are making these decisions ... but [regarding] the outliers, it’s not. It’s the outliers who do hold some of the horrendous views about women”.
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