At a conference held by family law workers' union Nagalro last week, children's solicitor Malek Wan Daud criticised the reforms. He said it was good practice to spend time getting to know clients and asking them the right questions, but he warned the outline went against such practice.
"The difficulty we have with the outline is it's unrealistic," said Wan Daud. "I think the concepts of time and asking people the right questions are counter-intuitive to a lot of the provisions in the outline."
Another speaker, Dr Julia Brophy, senior research fellow at the Centre for Family Law and Policy, expressed concern at the way the pilots of the outline had been assessed.
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