Royal commission: Family Court reforms urged to improve children's safety

By Jane Lee
Updated July 27 2015 - 7:14pm, first published 6:09pm
Attorney-General George Brandis has asked the Family Law Council to consider ways to transfer family disputes between family and state and territory courts. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Attorney-General George Brandis has asked the Family Law Council to consider ways to transfer family disputes between family and state and territory courts. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Family courts lack information about parents' history of family violence and cannot prevent survivors from being cross-examined by their abusers, a royal commission has been told.

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