Mapping Paths to Family Justice Phase 1 - Structured Questionnaire and Showcard. Mapping Paths to Family Justice Phase 1 - National Omnibus Survey Data. Mapping Paths to Family Justice Phase 2 - Party & Practitioner Project Information Sheets, Consent Forms and Interview Schedules. Mapping Paths to Family Justice Phase 2 - Individual Interview Transcripts with Parties. Mapping Paths to Family Justice Phase 2 - Individual Interview Transcripts with Practitioners. This project aimed to provide critical evidence about the usage, experiences and outcomes of different forms of alternative family dispute resolution (AFDR) on relationship breakdown, namely solicitor negotiations, mediation and collaborative law, at a time when these court alternatives were becoming increasingly used. In particular, it explored how well known and how widely used each of these processes had become nationally; how positive or negative people's experiences of these processes were in the short and longer term; what (if any) norms of family dispute resolution were embedded in each of these processes, and with what (if any) impacts on different kinds of users and cases; and whether each process appeared to be more or less appropriate for particular kinds of parties. The Project used a mixed methods approach over 3 phases. In Phase 1, we asked a set of structured questions on a nationally representative survey. In Phase 2, we conducted semi-structured interviews with lawyers, mediators and parties with experience of different styles of AFDR. Finally, in Phase 3 recording and analysis of a selection of mediations, collaborative law processes and lawyer-client interviews were undertaken.(Phase 3 data are not capable of full anonymisation and are therefore not available). Findings from the three phases were synthesised in order to arrive at a combined analysis and overall 'map' of family dispute resolution processes and pathways.

Phase 1 was a nationally representative face to face survey using a module of structured questions on the TNS-BMRB omnibus survey (n=2974). Phase 2 comprised 2 sets of semi-structured individual telephone/face to face interviews: a. the party sample was a purposive national sample of 95 people who had experienced relationship breakdown between 1996 and 2014 recruited in part from recruitment questions on both the national omnibus survey and from Civil and Social Justice Panel Survey. b.the practitioner sample was a purposive national sample of 40 family mediators, solicitors and collaborative lawyers recruited via professional associations. Phase 3 - comprised 13 recorded sets of AFDR sessions but these data cannot be fully anonymised and are not available.