Please stop awarding Legal Aid for Unproven Claims of Domestic Violence.

Rejected 16 signatures

What the petition asks

Legal Aid must Not be granted for Unproven Claims of Domestic Violence when Police records state NFA.Act's of this nature are used by a parent against the other parent to prevent or limit access to their child/ren and their extended family'.80% of UK' family court cases involve Parental Alienation.

The parent using Unproven Claims of Domestic Violence against the other parent then begins the process of Parental Alienation.Anthony Douglas CEO of Cafcass admits,"Parental Alienation is a crime and child abuse".Parental Alienation can cause irreversible damage to the child/ren in the future,causes the other parent to be removed entirely from the child and his/her memory.Please stop Legal Aid for Unproven Claims of Domestic Violence,it is used as a weapon against a parent and extended family's

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We are not sure what you mean by "unproven claims of domestic violence". Currently, people can apply for legal aid if they have evidence that they, or their children, have been victims of domestic abuse or violence and they can't afford to pay legal costs. If they are given legal aid, the domestic abuse then has to be proven in a court of law.

You can find out about the current process for legal aid claims for victims of domestic abuse here:

https://www.gov.uk/legal-aid/domestic-abuse-or-violence

If you'd like a specific change to how this process works, you could start a new petition asking for that change.

Timeline

8 Mar 2017	Petition opened for signatures
18 Mar 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 16

Status Rejected

Rejected 18 Mar 2017

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