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Reform Family Court to recognise & protect victims of coercive control

Submitted on Thursday 28th October 2021

Rejected on Wednesday 3rd November 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Reform Family Court to recognise & protect victims of coercive control

Petition Details

Educate Family Judges to recognise a Perpetrator of Emotional abuse/coercive control
Prevent Perpetrator from being able to use court system as a means of repeated abuse
Allow Respondents proper rights to defend against perpetrator using submitted evidence
Protect children from Perpetrator

Additional Information

Perpetrators are allowed to continuously apply to family court to abuse their victims over pertained 'breaches' of a CAO
Judges/Court fail to recognise emotional abuse/coercive control of Perpetrators
Judges/Court fail to protect victims of coercive control
Family court appears not to allow respondents to defend against perpetrator 'claims'
New partners of abuse victims dragged into system by perpetrator & judges with no right of reply
Perpetrator skillfully manipulates the Judge/Court System


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions must call for a specific action that the UK Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about training and education of judges, and legal proceedings regarding family cases, are a matter for the judiciary, not the Government or Parliament. As a result it is not possible for the Government or Parliament to take the action you have requested.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to review how the justice system handles cases involving victims of coercive control, if that's something you would like to happen.

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