Drawing on her doctoral research and two decades at the family Bar, Celestine Greenwood argues that the public law family justice system urgently needs better data — and that without it, the reform that children and families need cannot happen.
Writing in Counsel Magazine, Celestine Greenwood — an exhausted family practitioner — argues that the family law system is in crisis, and that failing to recognise this demeans the extraordinary efforts of all who work within it.
Drawing on 20 years at the family Bar and her LLM research in international human rights, Celestine Greenwood asks whether the public law family justice system is genuinely serving the children and families it exists to protect — and argues for a fundamental rethink.