🧵 Agencies serious about ending VAWG via supporting survivors +/ intervening with perpetrators must ensure #familycourts and their susceptibility to use by perpetrators to further abuse are understood at policy and practice levels

EXCLUSIVE: Duty solicitor pinned down by security staff at Stratford said he ‘could not breathe’.

The Gazette speaks to the duty solicitor involved in the Stratford Magistrates Court incident - who says he does not feel safe to return.

lawgazette.co.uk/news/exclusive…

Police officer found guilty of 10 counts of rape, 3 counts of rape of a child under 13, 1 count of kidnap & breach of a non-molestation order.

He has been jailed for life for his crimes that took place between 2014 and 2023.

Every VAWG case he’s worked on should be reopened.

Police officer found guilty of 10 counts of rape, 3 counts of rape of a child under 13, 1 count of kidnap & breach of a non-molestation order.

He has been jailed for life for his crimes that took place between 2014 and 2023.

Every VAWG case he’s worked on should be reopened.

Pretty sure the pleasure was ours!

My feminist legal shero, Dr. Ann Olivarius, invited me to speak about why it’s a problem for judges to be members of the Garrick Club, an all-male institution.
I had the pleasure of speaking to her UK and US law firm. What a powerhouse of progressive lawyers.

Dr Jessica Taylor’s new memoir is called Underclass 📕

Dr. Jessica Taylor joins @ClareMcDonnell1 to talk about growing up on a council estate in Stoke, and her journey from childhood trauma to becoming a professional who campaigns on behalf of other victims.

Listen from 10am 🔽

It should not be the responsibility of a mother to protect her child from a sex offending father, it should be the law’s. Thanks to Alex Chalk KC MP Laura Farris MP Maria_Miller Caroline Nokes MP Sanchia Berg this big step forward for child safety will now become law.

The House magazine ⬇️

“Judges need training, urgently – and not training they have written themselves – but expert domestic abuse training from charities who work with survivors… No survivor of abuse should be frightened that a judge will back an abuser & put her & her children in danger.”
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This is an amazing ruling and new case law! Well done Dr Proudman, and thank you!

📣 Groundbreaking Judgement safeguards VAW & domestic abuse - importantly, putting #ChildFirst .
🚩Coercive Controlling Behaviours shows us a pattern of risk & threat, especially where Parental Alienation & DARVO feature in Prof Jane Monckton Smith OBE #HomicideTimeline ©️