Domestic Violence Victims: Cross-Examination Debate
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Helen Goodman
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Domestic Violence Victims: Cross-Examination
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Sir Oliver Heald
My hon. Friend has highlighted an important case, as well as the work done by Women’s Aid. He is right to say that that issue needs to be tackled urgently.
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland) (Lab)
The need for training of the judiciary goes beyond the family courts. A constituent came to see me because her ex-partner had taken a case about the management of family property to the civil court, and the judge had said it was irrelevant that he had been imprisoned for raping her daughter. That cannot be right. Judges need to be trained as well.
Sir Oliver Heald
It would not, of course, have been a family justice case; it would have been a civil case. I agree with the hon. Lady that that is an important consideration, and I will look into it.