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Family violence isn’t always a scene from Once Were Warriors. More often, it’s about men controlling women, sometimes without physical abuse at all. (Video first published in September 2020)
A miscarriage of justice against an abuse victim, arising from the Family Court, has put the spotlight on the way our judiciary deals with domestic violence. Kirsty Johnston reports. Before the case of Mrs P - a woman abused by her husband and then wrongly convicted for perjury - there was already plenty of disquiet about the experiences of women and children within our Family Court. A mounting body of research had found that women were not believed when they alleged violence, and that children were ordered to have contact with unsafe parents even when there was good evidence in court.