Jul 10, 2026 · 56 min · 7 segments
In this episode of Daze in Court, Foley's barristers Rohan Hoult and Oliver Cain examine the role of expert evidence in family law parenting proceedings. They discuss the practical challenges of…
Rowan HoltHost
Oliver CainGuest
And being a workplace means that work practices and safe work practices have to be adopted.
And it's very different from the way I think the court was approached maybe 20 or 30 years ago when it was like going into a gladiator's ring.
And so all of us need to Be aware of that and behave responsibly and appropriately to ensure that it remains a safe place.
The judges are entitled, understandably, to be stern and pointed and impatient at times.
So whilst I think, yes, it should be a workplace, that has to be looked at in the context that it's an adversarial proceeding and they're very, very serious matters and a lot of money.
a lot of money being spent by people, and that's got to be seen in the context of that.
One of the messages I got about the podcast on stress was from the notorious Radu Katrinas.
Thank you, Radu, who I thought wrote in and said that he felt that what the podcast indicated him was the, and this is his expression, not mine, the increasing tyranny of running litigation, particularly in preparing for final hearings.
He was saying that the technological processes and other forces have made these cases or our cases much more complex and labour intensive.
I find now that when I'm doing trials, we've got things like case outlines, statements of agreed facts, asset pools, those assets that are in dispute, those assets that are not in dispute.
The one thing I am aware of, it makes it a lot more expensive for litigants to run these matters.
And one of the issues I have at the moment is this new wave or concept, if you like, flavor of the month of tendering documents, which I find, I must tell you, quite weird.
And being a workplace means that work practices and safe work practices have to be adopted.
And it's very different from the way I think the court was approached maybe 20 or 30 years ago when it was like going into a gladiator's ring.
And so all of us need to Be aware of that and behave responsibly and appropriately to ensure that it remains a safe place.
The judges are entitled, understandably, to be stern and pointed and impatient at times.
So whilst I think, yes, it should be a workplace, that has to be looked at in the context that it's an adversarial proceeding and they're very, very serious matters and a lot of money.
a lot of money being spent by people, and that's got to be seen in the context of that.
One of the messages I got about the podcast on stress was from the notorious Radu Katrinas.
Thank you, Radu, who I thought wrote in and said that he felt that what the podcast indicated him was the, and this is his expression, not mine, the increasing tyranny of running litigation, particularly in preparing for final hearings.
He was saying that the technological processes and other forces have made these cases or our cases much more complex and labour intensive.
I find now that when I'm doing trials, we've got things like case outlines, statements of agreed facts, asset pools, those assets that are in dispute, those assets that are not in dispute.
The one thing I am aware of, it makes it a lot more expensive for litigants to run these matters.
And one of the issues I have at the moment is this new wave or concept, if you like, flavor of the month of tendering documents, which I find, I must tell you, quite weird.
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