Barbara Mills QC was recently interviewed in The Times about her hopes that an appetite for change leads to real progress at the Bar and, of course, in mediation too. In speaking about mediation, Barbara complained that she thought that judges are not robust enough in enforcing compliance in private family cases with MIAMs and said that, “If I could do one thing to reform private law children work, it would be to make failure to mediate punishable with costs, as they do in the civil courts.” Click here for the full article.