Supplementary Submission: Questions on Notice – Family Law Amendment Bill 2024
The Law Council of Australia appeared before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee on 18 October 2024 in response to its inquiry into the provisions of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2024 (Cth), and to provide input as to how Australia’s family law system can continue to be improved to best promote justice for those in need of its services and protections.
During the appearance, the Deputy Chair of the Committee, Senator Paul Scarr, requested that we take several questions on notice. The Law Council is grateful to the Law Council’s Family Law Section for its guidance in the preparation of the below responses. In the time available, we have not had an opportunity to consult our Constituent Bodies.
In particular, the Deputy Chair asked whether there are any “legacy issues of a more substantive nature”1 with respect to the Bill that the Law Council wanted to draw to the attention of the Committee, further to the Law Council's submissions to the Attorney-General’s Department on 24 November 2023, and to the Committee on 9 October 2024.2
As the Chair of the Law Council’s Family Law Section, Ms Di Simpson, advised the Committee at its public hearing, the Law Council is “confident that the key issues that remain of concern have been expressed” in the Law Council’s 9 October 2024 submission.3
Read the full submission below.
1 Commonwealth of Australia, Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Family Law Amendment Bill (Proof Committee Hansard, 18 October 2024) 44.
2 Ibid 43-44.
3 Ibid 44.
Last Updated on 06/11/2024