In three family law cases recently, Judges have made it clear that justice may not be capable of being achieved if a party does not have access to ‘public funding.’ This is important because since April 2013 only parties who are parents in public law proceedings, or victims in domestic violence cases, or applicants in abduction proceedings […]
Multi-agency working in the field of domestic violence is now pretty much a routine way of working. It’s ‘the norm’ to be honest. Voluntary, statutory and institutional organisations work together in order to protect the vulnerable and punish or restrict unscrupulous and predatory bullies. At once, it should be made clear that domestic violence is […]
In many cases, the making of a contact order is not the end of the ordeal but the extension of it. Months, sometimes years, of litigation result in a contact order which is simply ignored by the custodial parent, or at best honoured only in the breach. Although, breach of a contact order, is not a […]
