Director & Team Leader family lawyer @thefamilylawco.Devon & Somerset Law Society Solicitor of 2019 & 2020 President’s special award winner.All views are my own
🔍 Better identification, enhanced protection, and informed decision-making – that's the impact of a shared statutory understanding of #HonourBasedAbuse. Join us in the #Push4Change campaign and help create a safer, more supportive environment for all. https://t.co/mdJtchcX5W
👩👩👦👦 “We want family law practitioners to sign-up, so we can get a fuller picture of the issues facing the sector.”
President Nick Emmerson tells @todaysfamily_, as we call on family law providers to take part of our research to reform #CivilLegalAid.
https://t.co/GV1T49VgHt
This is one my favorite celebrity stories of all time:
When James Doohan, Scotty in Star Trek, received a letter from a fan saying she was suicidal, he
responded to her and said he wanted to see her at his next convention.
When he’d hear from her, he’d invite her to the next convention and the next. For years, he’d speak with her and tell her positive things.
Then, one year, she stopped coming to conventions and he feared the worst.
8 years later, he received a
letter from the woman.
She told him that his kindness and encouragement saved her life, and that she had earned her Masters degree in Electronic
Engineering.
Doohan would later say connecting with her was "the best thing I have ever done in my life."
🔔 In a new blog published today, a survivor writes to a #FamilyCourt judge and urges them to consider how they address coercive control within the family justice system.
Read the piece below ⬇️ #16DaysOfActivism https://t.co/YlFmnUEDeW
Today it's Economic Abuse Awareness Day #EAAD23
Economic abuse is when an abuser limits your financial independence, such as stopping you from earning money through a job.
If you are experiencing economic abuse @SEAresource can help you. Find out more⬇️
https://t.co/tctzO5g7cw
Really proud to share the different ways of entering the law with law students @cardiffuni on behalf @TheFamilyLawCo with Natasha @MagdalenLawyers. CILEX, solicitors and counsel all as one sharing our journeys into the law. Proud to be part such of a diverse workplace.
Call for evidence from advocates in civil (including family) legal aid: can you spare some time in the coming month to speak to someone about how the system is operating now and what can be done to strengthen it? Please take part if you can.
P v F [2023] EWHC 2730 (Fam)
➡️ Decision to make a no contact order & a s91(14) order at a DRA overturned on appeal.
➡️ No opportunity for F, a LIP, to challenge the evidence & cafcass recommendation.
➡️ Procedural failings re s91(14). https://t.co/SqTVD6oMRf
It's "Supporting Male Victims of Domestic Abuse Day" where organisations are promoting support for men in their communities. Do look for #MenYouAreNotAlone and repost/tweet any content - it improves the chances men have of seeing there is help. Thank you. https://t.co/MgOS5HM0wd
Today is Supporting Male Victims of Domestic Abuse Day. A day when organisations & individuals come together to highlight the support that is out there & encourage male victims to come forward to access the help they need.
I want all male victims to know that #MenYouAreNotAlone