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Domestic Abuse

Re Z (Prohibition on Cross-examination: No QLR) [2024] EWFC 22

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/22.html Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. Judgment considering the approach that a judge or magistrate sitting in the Family Court should adopt when the court has directed that a Qualified Legal Representative (QLR) should be appointed for

The Intersection Between LSPOs and Economic Abuse

The Intersection Between LSPOs and Economic Abuse

Recent years have seen increasing awareness of economic abuse, and how the financial remedy process can be manipulated as a tool of such abuse. However, one aspect of this has had little attention: the intersection between economic abuse and LSPOs. The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 includes economic abuse within the

Is It Time to Consign the ‘Gasp’ Factor to the History Books?

Is It Time to Consign the ‘Gasp’ Factor to the History Books?

https://www.bailii.org/nie/cases/NIHC/Master/2023/6.html In the private law arena, the Family Court has taken huge strides forward in its understanding and approach to coercive control, following the landmark case of Re H-N and Others (Children) (Domestic Abuse: Finding of Fact Hearings) [2021] EWCA

SS v RS [2023] EWFC 32 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/32/data.pdf Sir Jonathan Cohen. Application by H, inter alia, for compensation relating to delay in W complying with an undertaking to use her best endeavours to procure the release of H from the mortgage on the family home following a financial