Domestic Violence Victims Not Safe In Family Courts
A letter signed by 130 family lawyers and family law professionals has stated that family courts are not safe for domestic violence victims due to ‘outdated views’ held by some judges. Inspired by the case last year, where a judge ruled a woman had ‘taken no physical steps’ to stop a rape, the family law […]
Further Increases To Private Law Case Applications To Cafcass
Cafcass has released its monthly statistics from April 2019 to January 2020, showing an increase in new cases and the highest demand for the month of January on record. Between April 2019 and January 2020, overall there were 2,243 more cases than was seen in the same period the year previously, an increase of 4.4%. There was a total […]
