A husband has been issued with a restraining order to stop him from contacting his former wife’s solicitor on her private email address. Mr Justice Mostyn made the order after the husband, despite being subject to a civil restraint order, bombarded the court, Mr Justice Mostyn’s clerk, the wife’s solicitor and the wife’s barrister with […]

Women’s Aid, the charity working to ensure women’s safety from domestic violence, has published a report looking at service provision and the needs of women and children who are victims of domestic abuse. Amongst other things, the report found that only 28% of women using community-based services, such as drop-in services and counselling support, reported […]

The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has unveiled a raft of proposals relating to the treatment of domestic abuse survivors in court, including making them automatically eligible for special measures, such as giving evidence behind screens. The proposals will form part of a consultation on what to include in a forthcoming domestic abuse bill. Some practitioners […]

The High Court has ruled that an NHS Trust may remove life support from a 20 month old child who is in a semi-vegetative state and has a degenerative neurological condition that has never been definitively diagnosed by doctors. The NHS Trust for the hospital treating Alfie Evans, Alder Hey in Liverpool, applied to the […]