“… What has however, undergone fundamental change over the past twenty five years is the nature and scope of the problems to which these stable legal principles must be applied in order to try to achieve resolution for children and families. This is a function of the central role played by family law in the life of a nation, touching as it does on a myriad of social, scientific, philosophical and religious aspects of life and, accordingly, necessarily always part of the vanguard in addressing the impact of societal changes nationally, regionally and globally. These national, regional and global changes over the past twenty five years that have influenced the type of issues the family justice systems in our jurisdictions are required to deal with are well known and contrast sharply with the relative stability of the cardinal family law principles …” (more)
The Hon Mr Justice MacDonald, ‘Family Law – Past and Future’, Four Jurisdictions Conference, 1 February 2020.
First posted 2020-02-20 09:30:18
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