Domestic Abuse
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KA v LE [2023] EWFC 266 (B)29 November 2023
DDJ Mark Harrop. Final hearing in FR proceedings with consideration of relevance to findings in children proceedings that H had bullied, coerced and controlled W throughout the whole of their marriage.
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- Domestic Abuse
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Re Z (Prohibition on Cross-examination: No QLR) [2024] EWFC 229 February 2024
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 a party in circumstances where no QLR was available.
- Cases
- Domestic Abuse
- Qualified Legal Representative
- Case Management
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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.
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- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Domestic Abuse
!08/02/2024 11:39
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Is It Time to Consign the ‘Gasp’ Factor to the History Books?
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 Civ 448. We know now that domestic abuse and coercive control is linked with poorer financial outcomes for victim-survivors and their children, and that the harm victim-survivors experience is caused by coercion and control – not only by the severity of the injury from a specific incident.
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- Domestic Abuse
- Coercive Control
!18/10/2023 14:23
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SS v RS [2023] EWFC 32 (Fam)16 March 2023
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 remedy order in 2019.…
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- Costs
- Undertakings
- Compensation Principle
- Striking Out Applications
- Domestic Abuse