Legal right to access to children dropped from official review after Australian experience The Norgrove review eventually recommended: "No legislation should be introduced that creates or risks creating the perception that there is a parental right to substantially shared or equal time for both parents." However Children's minister Tim Loughton, who questioned the usefulness of the Australian example, and said judges made the mistake of seeing shared parenting "as being about equality of time." He said: "There were concerns about the Australian experience because too often the focus was interpreted as being about equality of time. As we know, we cannot carve up a child's existence on the basis of some spurious 50:50 split in terms of time.