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A Williams

Our Reference: 70630 and 70481 / May 2011

Dear A Williams,

Thank you for your emails of 12 and 13 May 2011 in which you asked for the following information from the Ministry of Justice:

Question 1

According to your Interim Report the Review Panel met representatives of 65 of the 135 Organisations it heard from. Can you please list the 70 Organisations the Panel DID NOT meet

Question 2

The following individuals were met during the Family Justice Review, (Page 197/198 of the Interim Report.) Please can you clarify what role each holds that links them to Family Justice?

Baroness Shackleton

Eileen Monro

Francis Plowden

John Eskelaar

Judith Masson

Liz Trinder

Mavis Maclean

Mervyn Murch

Sir Mark Potter

Your requests have been passed to me because I have responsibility for answering requests which relate to the family justice review and your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

I can confirm that the Department holds some of the information you are seeking, and I have answered your questions in turn below:

Question 1

After clarification of your request, you asked to be sent a list of all the organisations who submitted written evidence to the review. The list below gives this information.

Question 2

Name / Role linked to Family Justice
Baroness Shackleton / Prominent divorce solicitor working for Payne Hicks Beach
Eileen Munro / Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and recently completed a review of child protection on behalf of Department for Education.
Francis Plowden / Author of the 2009 Review of Court Fees in Child Care Proceedings
John Eskelaar / Former academic co-director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy
Judith Masson / Professor of socio-legal studies at Bristol University
Liz Trinder / Professor of socio-legal studies at Exeter University
Mavis Maclean / Co-director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy and a socio-legal researcher at Oxford University
Mervyn Murch / Emeritus Professor at Cardiff Law School
Sir Mark Potter / Former President of the Family Division

If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may write to request an internal review. The internal review will be carried out by someone who did not make the original decision, and they will re-assess how the Department handled the original request.

If you wish to request an internal review, please write or send an email to the Data Access and Compliance Unit within two months of the date of this letter, at the following address:

Data Access and Compliance Unit

Information Directorate

Ministry of Justice

6th Floor

Post point 6.24

102 Petty France

London

SW1H 9AJ

e-mail:

If you remain dissatisfied after an internal review decision, you have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner’s Office under Section 50 of the FOIA. You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at the following address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Internet: https://www.ico.gov.uk/Global/contact_us.aspx

Yours sincerely,

Irene Museveni

Family Justice Review Secretariat

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