'The Family Justice Response to Domestic Abuse - The Report' is published
Date Published: 11.10.2024
The report of the three-year project led by Professor Shazia Choudhry, our Hackney Fellow in Law, was launched at a conference held at Wadham in October 2024.
'The Family Justice Response to Domestic Abuse - The Report' arose from a three-year project on the response of the family justice system to allegations of domestic abuse in England and Wales, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Italy, and Spain. The qualitative research involved interviews with key stakeholder groups, including judges, lawyers, court-appointed experts, and focus groups with survivors across all six jurisdictions.
Fifty delegates from nine countries and many fields of the family justice system attended a conference at Wadham on 3 October to discuss the launch of “The Family Justice Response to Domestic Abuse: a Six Country Empirical Study of the Experiences of Survivors, Judges, Lawyers and Court-Appointed Experts” and an animation on one of the key messages from the research. The project’s findings were discussed at the conference by international judges ( European Court of Human Rights judges and the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights) and domestic judges, representatives from CAFCASS England and CAFCASS Wales, NGOs, academics, lawyers, the Ministry of Justice and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner.
Many of those at the conference had supported the project and worked with Professor Choudhry over the past few years. She thanked all those who helped her reach the stakeholders “and of course, one group without whom this research would not have happened without .. the survivors.”
The report is available in English, French, Spanish, and Italian.
