Family court chief calls for social media controls

Category: Media Control

The Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia has called for tighter government controls on social media.

Diana Bryant was one of the keynote speakers at a Family Law Conference in Hobart.

She said social media was now having a major impact on family court proceedings and it was very difficult to control.

"On YouTube at the moment there are some really distressing videos of parents manipulating their children and they're available for anyone to watch," Ms Bryant said.

"That's something that's never happened before.

"We have social media, it's there, and the legislators do need to find some way of dealing with it."

Geoffrey Sinclair from the Law Council of Australia said comments on Facebook and Twitter, or videos on You Tube, were very hard to control.

"We are seeing more and more of details of cases being put into public media by disgruntled litigants," he said.

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October 15th, 2012
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