court in the owens case, can the government have any reason for not supporting the noble lady baroness butlerlay? with a view to introducing no—fault divorce, with a simple scheme of application and confirmation of irretrievable breakdown. the noble lord is quite right, collaboration should be at the heart of all divorcing couples. and at the moment, it is the case that three in five divorcing couples use conduct—based allegations — which, of course, create a huge amount of conflict. as i have already said, the government is looking extremely closely at this. we‘re looking at ways that we can reduce conflict within a divorce, whether that be no—fault, whether that be other financial provisions, whether that be for enforceable nuptial agreements. and i very much hope that noble lords will see progress in the near future. as a practising divorce lawyer, may i ask my noble friend the minister what is actually going to go in the timetable? i don‘t think there‘s a family in the land that isn‘t affected by divorce somewhere along the line. to accelerate reform in relation to the breakdown of the ma

most recently, baroness butler—sloss introduced into the house of lords a private bill earlier this yearnsultation today. along with their rice say lots of other things, not least of which was mrs 0wen‘s well—publicised fight which was in the supreme court only a couple of months ago which really had commentators around the world talking about wine in england and wales we have quite such an archaic system. how long do you think it will take to implement these reforms? that really is the burning question. although resolution very much welcomes this consultation, we have been campaigning for a number of years and i think everybody who practices in this field, both academics who have looked at the law including most recent professors and judges who work in this area, are pretty much all on the same page that things need to change. i do not doubt there will be a vocal minority groups who feel that this is about making divorce easy, it's going to make it a speedy process, that people have the option to do now fault divorce at the moment but the problem with all of those arguments is no—fault