EC Meeting July 2017

B

create a working party of union sharing champions.

ACTION

Motion 5 NAPO

Domestic violence victims in the Family Court System

1. This BGCM welcomes the announcement of an emergency review of the Family Court system on the need to afford greater protection to the victims of Domestic Violence and the prevention of the situation where perpetrators may cross examine their victims at hearings. This practice serves only to revictimise and passers the power to perpetrators in a system which is there to protect victims. This anomaly is already prohibited in the Criminal Courts. This BGCM instructs the Executive Committee to:

A commission support and research from our associated academics on this important issue.

B

seek input by way of a survey of Napo members working in CAFCASS

C seek an urgent approach from the legal professions and Women’s Aid with a view to assisting the GFTU in aiming to influence the outcomes of the review through Parliament.

ACTION

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