Domestic Abuse: Assessing impact

Jane Wilson highlights the developing practice in children cases where there is a risk of domestic violence and harm ‘Domestic violence involves a very serious and significant failure in parenting – failure to protect the child’s carer and failure to protect the child emotionally (and in some cases physically – which meets any definition of …
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Cases Referenced

  • Practice Direction: Residence and Contact Orders: Domestic Violence and Harm [2009] 2 FLR 1400
  • President's Guidance (Split Hearings) [2010] All ER (D) 20 (Jun)
  • Re C [2009] EWCA Civ 994
  • Re H (a child) (Contact: Domestic Violence) [2005] EWCA Civ 1404
  • Re L (Contact: Domestic Violence) [2000] EWCA Civ 194
  • Re P Contact Supervision [1996] 2 FLR 314
  • Re S (Care Proceedings: Split Hearing) [1996] 2 FLR 773