Fathers 4 Justice supports mandatory mediation

FATHERS' rights organisation, Fathers 4 Justice South Africa, said it fully supported the decision by Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo on his directive for mandatory mediation in civil trial matters, as this is the correct route to follow.

- ZELDA VENTER

Its chairman, Gary da Silva, in response to a Constitutional Court challenge against the directive, said Judge Mlambo’s leadership was courageous, constitutionally sound, and morally necessary.

“He has recognised what the legal profession refuses to admit: that endless litigation is not justice, but exploitation.”

Da Silva added that it was time the endless litigation in family matters came to a speedy end, as, according to him, the only winners in the end were the lawyers who charge exorbitant legal fees.

“We call upon the Law Reform Commission, Parliament, and the Executive to immediately extend his directive across the entire South Africa. The children and families of South Africa cannot and must not be sacrificed any longer to the greed within the divorce industry,” he said.