Mar. 26 2024
Source Page: Domestic abuse: statistics recorded by the police in Scotland, 2022-23Found: Domestic abuse: statistics recorded by the police in Scotland, 2022-23
Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 was transformative with the protections it gave to domestic abuse victims - Speech Link
2: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) Domestic abuse has no place in modern society or any society. - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) violence advisers, but independent domestic abuse advisers. - Speech Link
Found: of domestic abuse, serious violent offences and sexual offences.
Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: Work Rights Centre, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), and Rights Lab, University of Nottingham Oral
Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: Work Rights Centre, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), and Rights Lab, University of Nottingham Oral
Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, to thread the line between the different forms of exploitation
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic ResilienceFound: Article 19 and the Foreign Policy Centre identify the UK and London as the ‘leading jurisdiction’ for domestic
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic ResilienceFound: perpetrators to account. 7.
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Scottish Government Initial Response to the Concluding Observations issued by the UN Committee on the Rights of the ChildFound: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Scottish Government Initial Response to the Concluding
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the document entitled Qualified legal representative appointed by the Court: Statutory guidance, published in July 2022, how many qualified legal representatives have been registered in (a) family and (b) other civil cases since the publication of that guidance.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The Qualified Legal Representative (QLR) scheme was introduced in July 2022, following the Government’s Domestic Abuse Act (2021) which prohibited unrepresented perpetrators or alleged perpetrators of abuse from cross-examining their victims or alleged victims in family and civil proceedings, and vice versa. The prohibition ensures that vulnerable victims and witnesses are not traumatised by being cross-examined directly by their alleged perpetrator.
As of 20 March 2024, there are currently 366 QLRs registered to undertake work in the family courts and 78 QLRs registered to undertake work in the civil courts. We do not hold central data on total registrations since the publication of the statutory guidance.
Circumstances under which a QLR is required vary, for example, depending on whether parties have their own representation, and decisions on which cases require QLRs are taken by the courts. We do not collect data centrally on how many cases have required a QLR, or the number of QLRs that have presented cases under the scheme.
We do not hold central data on how many QLRs have completed training, which they are able to access from a range of external providers. The Government encourages legal professionals to take up this important work to assist in both the family and civil courts, and to complete the required training as early as practicable.