Practice Direction (Residence and Contact Orders: Domestic Violence) (No.2): FD 14 Jan 2009

The term ‘domestic violence’ ‘includes physical violence, threatening or intimidating behaviour and any other form of abuse which, directly or indirectly, may have caused harm to the other party or to the child or which may give rise to the risk of harm’.

[2009] 1 WLR 251
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England and Wales
Cited by:
CitedAN (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for The Home Department CA 6-Jul-2010
The claimant appealed against refusal of indefinite leave to remain. She said that she feared if she returned to Pakistan she would be subject to domestic violence. Though her husband had received prison sentences of three years for offences of . .

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Updated: 06 December 2021; Ref: scu.420383