We collaborate with academics, women and their advocates, and the legal sector to examine the intersection of family violence and family law.
- In the Centre of the Storm: Durham Speaks Out - A community response to custody and access issues affecting woman abuse survivors and their children, 1997
- Through the Looking Glass: The Experiences of Unrepresented Abused Women in Family Court - a summary of our 2008 research by Pamela Cross
- The Impacts of Recent Law Reforms on Abused Women Involved in the Family Court Process in Ontario, Joan Riggs, 2011
- It Shouldn't Be This Hard: A gender-based analysis of family law, family court and violence against women, Pamela Cross, 2012
- When Shared Parenting and the Safety of Women and Children Collide, Pamela Cross, 2016
- Unable to Relinquish Control: Legal Abuse in Family Court, Kate Mazzuocco, 2017
- How will the changes to child protection legislation affect the women I support?, Kevin Chao, 2019
- The Impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Recommendations on Violence Against Women, Amanda Smith, 2019
- Unpaid Child Support and the Impact on Women's and Children's Poverty, Amanda Smith, 2019
- The Degendering of Male Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence against Female Partners in Ontario Family Law Courts, Mavis Morton, Tanja Samardzic, Pamela Cross, Shannon Johnstone, Leslie Vesely and Melisa Choubak, 2021
Providing effective legal support & advice
- Going the Distance: Supporting Rural and Remote Survivors with Family Law Issues, Pamela Cross and Paula Wansbrough, 2022 (first published in 2016)
- Stopping coercive control by criminalization: The implications for family law, Allana Haist, 2021
- The Degendering of Male Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence against Female Partners in Ontario Family Law Courts, Mavis Morton, Tanja Samardzic, Pamela Cross, Shannon Johnstone, Leslie Vesely, and Melisa Choubak, 2021
- What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: The importance of family violence screening tools for family law practitioners, Pamela Cross, Sara Crann, Kate Mazzuocco, Mavis Morton, 2018 - download from the Department of Justice, Canada
- 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”, by Luke's Place and the Barbra Schlifer Clinic, 2017
- The Impact of Third Parties on Solicitor-Client Privilege, Pamela Cross, 2015
- Towards a Centre of Excellence: A Think Tank Discussion about Violence Against Women and Family Law, Pamela Cross, 2015
- The Technological and Related Considerations of a Virtual Legal Clinic for Women who have Experienced Violence, Paula Wansbrough, 2015
