STOP DOMESTIC ABUSE THROUGH THE FAMILY COURTS

Last year, by order of the High Court advised by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), my friend’s two high school children were taken by force in the middle of the night from the home of their mother. They were dragged out of her house...

TAKE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERIOUSLY IN COURTS

Last night Manchester Crown Court’s Judge Richard Mansell ruled that he would not jail Mustafa Bashir, a man who made his wife drink bleach and, at one point, struck her over her back with a cricket bat saying: “If I hit you with this bat with my full power then...