While we’re on our summer break, The Front Page is taking a look back at some of the biggest news stories and top rated episodes from the podcast this year.  

No family ever expects to find themselves in court – but for thousands in Aotearoa, that is the reality they find themselves in. 

In August, the NZ Herald ran a series on the Family Court, poring through the case files and talking to those at the coalface of a part of our legal system that is under crisis.  

Herald senior writer Jane Phare discussed what she had learnt about a system that some have described as a “warzone”. 

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