Course description
This webinar will bring you up to date on the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
It will deal with those sections which are in force and will also cover important aspects of the Act such as Domestic Abuse Protection Notices and Domestic Abuse Protection Orders which are not yet in force. As and when they are, they will radically alter, and replace, the current regime.
Further topics discussed by expert presenter Colin Beaumont will include the definitions of ‘domestic abuse’, ‘personally connected’ and ‘children as victims of domestic abuse’, controlling or coercive behaviour, protection for victims/witnesses in legal proceedings, and much more.
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Introduction
This webinar will bring you up to date on the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
It will deal with those sections which are in force and will also cover important aspects of the Act such as Domestic Abuse Protection Notices and Domestic Abuse Protection Orders which are not yet in force.
As and when they are, they will radically alter, and replace, the current regime.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- The important parts of The Domestic Abuse Act
- The definitions of ‘domestic abuse’, ‘personally connected’ and ‘children as victims of domestic abuse’
- Consent to serious harm for sexual gratification not to be a defence
- Threats to disclose private sexual photographs or films with intent to cause distress
- Controlling or coercive behaviour
- Domestic Abuse Protection Notices
- Domestic Abuse Protection Orders
- Notification requirements for someone subject to a Domestic Abuse Protection Order
- The relatively new offence of non-fatal strangulation or non-fatal suffocation
- The Domestic Abuse Commissioner
- Protection for victims/witnesses in legal proceedings
- The important parts of the 3 schedules at the back of the Act
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