Research by Luke’s Place
We collaborate with academics, women and their advocates, and the legal sector to examine the intersection of family violence and family law.
- Diverse victim-survivors of intimate partner violence and the Ontario family law system (Executive summary), Mavis Morton, University of Guelph, and Luke’s Place, 2026
- Navigating family court alone: Barriers and gaps in legal representation for survivors of intimate partner violence in Ontario, Luke’s Place, 2026
- The degendering of male perpetrated intimate partner violence against female partners in Ontario family law courts, Mavis Morton, University of Guelph, and Luke’s Place, 2021
- Unpaid child support and the impact on women’s and children’s poverty, 2019
- Unable to relinquish control: Legal abuse in family court, 2017
- It shouldn’t be this hard: A gender-based analysis of family law, family court and violence against women, Pamela Cross, 2012
- Through the looking glass: The experiences of unrepresented abused women in family court (Research summary and analysis) Pamela Cross, 2008
- Research report: A needs gap assessment report on abused women without legal representation in the family courts (Durham Region), Molly Dragiewicz and Walter DeKeseredy, 2008
- Final report: Needs assessment and gap analysis for abused women unrepresented in the family law system (Durham Region), Luke’s Place, 2008
- Study on the experiences of abused women in the family courts in eight regions in ontario, Molly Dragiewicz and Walter DeKeseredy, 2008
- Étude sur les expériences des femmes
- In the centre of the storm: Durham speaks out, Community Coalition, 1997
- Limited scope legal services: Pilot evaluation report, Anne Bergen, Knowledge to Action Consulting, 2026
- Going the distance: Supporting rural and remote survivors with family law issues, 2022 (first published in 2016)
- Stopping coercive control by criminalization: The implications for family law, 2021
- What you don’t know can hurt you: The importance of family violence screening tools for family law practitioners, Mavis Morton, University of Guelph, and Luke’s Place, 2018
- The special needs of survivors of family violence in the family court process: Comments on Justice Annemarie E. Bonkalo’s report “Family legal services review”, Luke’s Place and the Barbra Schlifer Clinic, 2017
- The impact of third parties on solicitor-client privilege, 2015
- Towards a centre of excellence: A think tank discussion about violence against women and family law, 2015
- Call for a review of mandatory charging policies, 2024
- How will the changes to child protection legislation affect the women I support?, 2019
- The impact of the truth and reconciliation commission’s recommendations on violence against women, 2019
- When shared parenting and the safety of women and children collide, Pamela Cross, 2016
- The impacts of recent law reforms on abused women involved in the family court process in Ontario, Joan Riggs, 2011