Rachael Blakey is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warwick.

• 1. IntroductionPart 1: Tracking Family Mediator Practice2. The Rise of Family Mediation in Law and Policy3. The Limited Mediator4. The Flexible MediatorPart 2: An Empirical Study into the Flexible Mediator5. The Four Mediator Functions6. Flexible Mediators and Family Justice7. The Wider Barriers to Family Mediation Reform8. Conclusion

“A vital addition to the literature tracking mediation’s increasingly central role in contemporary family justice. Its original empirical evidence and analysis provide new, valuable insights and greater conceptual understanding of the ‘flexible’ family mediator.” Anne Barlow, University of Exeter"A welcome attempt to add to evidence-based understanding of the practice of family mediation." Mavis Maclean, University of Oxford