The committee role is:
1. To represent Auckland family law practitioners as an information gathering focus group of people who can identify and formulate problems, find strategies and implement resolutions for the issues unique to those practitioners. Such issues are generally as follows:
• Registries
• Staffing
• Court Liaison Committees
• Local Practice

2. To effectively disseminate information on those issues to Auckland practitioners.

3. To formalise the gathering and circulation of the information, make submissions and lobby:
• Auckland practitioners
• Auckland District Law Society Law Committees
• NZLS Family Law Section
• Government Select Committees
• Ministry of Justice

4. To interface with the Family law Section on the issues affecting both local and national interests of family lawyers.

5. To maintain a representative function that determines legal education topics, and reports to the Continuing Legal Education Department of ADLS.

6. To have a networking function for Auckland practitioners with lunchtime forums, articles and media contacts.

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