Urgent Question on perpetrators of domestic violence cross-examining their victims
9 January 2017 (updated on 9 January 2017)
The Minister for Courts and Justice, Sir Oliver Heald QC, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove, on Monday 9 January on the emergency review to determine how to ban perpetrators of domestic violence from directly cross-examining their victims within the family court.
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