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Domestic and family violence

Changes to family law would help the court manage the risks of domestic and family violence, the Gold Coast Legal Conference was told.
Sally Crosswell
"The Department ought to ensure that its decision makers are properly trained and able to more competently evaluate the relevance of domestic violence concerns when they arise in transfer refusals."
Sally Crosswell
One-year-old Charlie was found in an Ipswich park with a note attached to his collar, and taken to the RSPCA's Pets in Crisis program.
Sally Crosswell
Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service will present a three-day education event in Cairns next month.
Judge Chowdhury considered “that the circumstances of this litigation are unique and special, and it would be unfair to order costs against the respondent”.
Sally Crosswell
“Threat and harm to animals is a common form of coercive control of victims of family violence," an RSPCA webinar was told last week.
Sally Crosswell
An Australian Institute of Criminology report has outlined the impacts of misidentification of victim-survivors through the use of body-worn camera footage.
Sally Crosswell
The email and its attachments, which the lawyer had labelled “spare time reading”,  disclosed the identity of a party and a child involved in domestic and family violence proceedings.
Sally Crosswell

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