Category Archives: Domestic Violence
In March 2012 “Clare’s Law” began a pilot scheme in four areas - Nottingham, Greater Manchester, Gwent and Wiltshire. Clare’s Law is named after Clare Wood, who was murdered by an ex boyfriend with a secret violent past, the scheme was …
A St Austell based family lawyer is warning of the potentially devastating impact that Government cuts on legal aid will have on the most vulnerable people in the South West. The Government’s cuts to Legal Aid will come into force …
The Home Office move to widen the definition of domestic abuse has been welcomed by a leading Westcountry family lawyer, who hopes it will help to protect more victims and increase access to legal aid for divorce. Domestic abuse will …
The 2002 Adoption and Children Act S120 identifies extended the legal definition of harming children to include “harm suffered by seeing or hearing ill treatment of others, especially in the home”. Whilst therefore for some time it has been recognised …
When it comes to domestic violence, Peter Marshall asks whether you should have the right to know your partner’s past… This summer a trial will start in some parts of the country where people will be allowed to ask the …
People in some parts of England and Wales will soon be able to find out from the police if their partner has a history of domestic violence, under ‘Clare’s Law’, so named after Clare Wood who died in 2009 at …
In the last four years there has been a significant rise in reported cases of domestic abuse, according to Home Office figures. In one county, the total rose from under 7,000 cases in 2006 to more than 11,500 in 2010. …
New government proposals are afoot which would give people the power to find out from the police if a new partner has a history of domestic violence. This follows a campaign by the father of a woman killed by her …
Within Injunction Proceedings where there have been allegations of domestic violence, Undertakings have commonly been used as a way of providing protection but also avoiding problems that could be caused by further litigation and the Court having to go into …
Section 5 of the Domestic Violent Crime and Victim Act 2004 makes it a criminal offence to cause or allow the death of a child or vulnerable adult. It was this provision that was used to prosecute Baby P’s mother …
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