Event Date: Thursday 20th Oct 2011
Event Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Event Venue: Offices of Grant Thornton Accountants Ground Floor Grant Thornton House 102 Adelaide Street Brisbane

Backing a winner is a difficult enough task at the best of times. When the horses are fit for the knacker’s yard or can’t be bothered to leave the stable, the betting is made harder, if not impossible. Sometimes a Knight in shining armour joins the fray. Sometimes a pantomime horse makes an appearance. We’ve seen it all.

What is real however, is that the family courts and the state courts sometimes have their legs tied together, sometimes running in opposite directions, sometimes catastrophically. It’s no comedy and it’s not entertaining.

Robin Slade Jones and John Selfridge examine Australia’s ability (and its insuperable disabilities) to protect its most vulnerable.