Family violence HELP for family law legal advisors

By Pamela Cross | January 18, 2022
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Identifying the presence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in a new family law file has never been easy for lawyers, but help has arrived in an important new tool recently released by Justice Canada. The HELP Toolkit: Identifying and Responding to Family Violence for Family Law Legal Advisors became available in early January, after several…

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Violence screening tools for family law professionals

By Luke's Place | January 25, 2019
pensive woman looking out window

Woman abuse is a common issue in family court cases, yet few legal professionals screen for it. As The Globe and Mail reports: About 67 per cent of domestic homicides in Ontario involved couples who had separated or were about to separate, according to data from the province’s chief coroner spanning from 2003 to 2016….…

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