CRITICISM OF OUR NEW KITCHENER'S NEW DOWNTOWN COURTHOUSE

Saturday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this opinion piece "It's time to fix our broken family law system" , written by Barry Little of Kid's"n" Dad Shared Support. Mr. Little has long been an advocate and proponent of a non adversarial approach in family law. His well thought out beliefs and opinions would greatly reduce the stress and tension inherent in our current family law processes and procedures. There have been attempts and suggestions over the decades to implement a kinder, gentler, less adversarial approach but they have not been brought to fruition.

Mr. Little suggests in his article that "mortar and bricks over human resources is inexcusable" and he is correct. He suggests that far more time and money should have gone into reforming one aspect of our legal system (family law) than into building a monument and edifice to our legal system. Again he is correct but let me ask Mr. Little this question. "Do you think that our legal system failures are solely in the area of family law?". Both our criminal and civil law systems are pathetic. The failures that Mr. Little knows only too well in our family law also exist throughout the system. From ambitious prosecuters, politically motivated judges, incompetence and just plain inertia, the system rattles on. It has been designed for the convenience and financial benefit of all the legal stakeholders and as usual the citizens are left holding the bag with overly expensive and barely second class justice available. The system is broken and all the new monuments and edifices in the world won't fix it.