Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Defining coercion and control

Coercion and control: Our Family Law Act doesn’t exhaustively define family violence but it was amended a decade ago to include the element of coercive and controlling behaviour.  In fact, control and coercion are really at the heart of the definition of family violence, because the “violent, threatening or other behaviour” perpetrated “coerces or controls […]

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