5. Protection from Domestic Abuse
5. Protection from Domestic Abuse
- N V Lowe, N V LoweEmeritus Professor of Law at Cardiff University
- G Douglas, G DouglasProfessor of Law at King’s College London
- E HitchingsE HitchingsProfessor in Family Law at University of Bristol
- , and R TaylorR TaylorAssociate Professor of Law at University of Oxford and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford
Abstract
This chapter begins with discussion of the definition and scale of domestic abuse; government strategy; and gender-based abuse as a breach of human rights. It then turns to the protection afforded by the criminal law, before considering a range of civil law remedies. Towards the end of the chapter, attention is given to law reform proposals in the Domestic Abuse Bill 2020.
