{"podcast":{"title":"Law and Disorder: News, politics and more, from a legal perspective","slug":"law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162","podcast_index_feed_id":6759162,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec/1746198139250-271485cd-969a-4646-bbaa-bd2713bc72f1.jpeg","author":"Podot","episode_count":113,"summary":"Law and Disorder is a new weekly podcast looking at the biggest issues in the news through the prism of the law. We've brought together three of the UK's best legal minds: recently retired High Court judge Sir Nicholas Mostyn, barrister and human rights campaigner Baroness Helena Kennedy, and Charlie Falconer, a Labour peer and former Lord Chancellor. Subscribe now for weekly episodes disentangling the thorniest of subjects, from Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill to the situation in Gaza, via Post Office scandals, Prince Harry and privacy and much, much more. Law and Disorder is a Podot podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T14:17:01.767841+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162"},"episode":{"title":"The Overhaul of Family Law: Will there be a fairer end to relationships?","slug":"the-overhaul-of-family-law-will-there-be-a-fairer-end-to-relationships","published_at":"2026-06-10T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/the-overhaul-of-family-law-will-there-be-a-fairer-end-to-relationships","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162","url":"https://shows.acast.com/law-and-disorder-2/episodes/tbd","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec/e/6a2884ff262000e475495c14/media.mp3","summary":"At the end of March, the UK Government launched an initiative to overhaul the family justice system. Why? The law hasn’t kept pace with the realities of modern families, the Government says, leaving many without rights and facing financial hardship. So what does this initiative aim to do? Former president of the family division, Sir Andrew McFarlane explains that its goal is to move away from adversarial hearings to focus on the child and make way for a fairer end to relationships. He and the broadcaster, commentator and family mediator, Joanna Gosling, join us on this week's episode to help us predict the future of family law. Law and Disorder is a Podot podcast. Hosted by: Charlie Falconer, Helena Kennedy, Nicholas Mostyn. Executive Producer and editor: Nick Hilton. Associate Producers: Lulu Goad Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"At the end of March, the UK Government launched an initiative to overhaul the family justice system. Why? The law hasn’t kept pace with the realities of m…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2040,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/episodes/the-overhaul-of-family-law-will-there-be-a-fairer-end-to-relationships/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/the-overhaul-of-family-law-will-there-be-a-fairer-end-to-relationships.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}