It was a source of some bemusement to read recently that a police campaign targeting domestic violence has been criticised for being ‘sexist’, simply because it ‘routinely’ depicts the perpetrator as male and the victim as female. The complaint is that posters designed to raise awareness of the new offence of ‘coercive and controlling behaviour’ use images which refer to […]
How risky is it to breach a contact order? Very recently I dealt with my first case where there was a real prospect of change of residence as a mother would not comply with a contact order. I have to say that the case gave me no pleasure whatsoever. Parents in family cases regularly take the proverbial ‘Michael’ […]
‘Male hegemony’ is not a phrase that is likely to come up at many family gatherings! It refers to the social, political and cultural dominance of men over women. In fairness, it is probably the biggest single issue that has allowed domestic violence to be tolerated and largely sidelined, if not totally ignored, until say […]
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