Government urged to protect long-term funding for domestic abuse services as study reveals scale of deadly male violence More than 900 women were killed by men in England and Wales over a six-year period, most by their current or former partners, according to the first detailed analysis of deadly male violence against women in those countries. The Femicide Census, which tracks and analyses … [Read more...]
Archives for 2016
12/5/16 Press Release: 58 Children Murdered By A Parent Who Could Have Been Saved
12/5/16 Press Release: 58 Children Murdered By A Parent Who Could Have Been Saved (PDF) For Immediate Release: … [Read more...]
Custody in Crisis: How Family Courts Nationwide Put Children in Danger
Six years ago, in 2010, an appellate court in Tennessee affirmed a family court ruling that had awarded Darryl Sawyer* primary custody of his six-and-a-half-year-old son, Daniel. The court ruled in favor of Sawyer despite evidence presented by his ex-wife that alleged he had sexually abused their child. Three years earlier, Daniel returned from a visit with his father with suspicious bruises … [Read more...]
California’s legal system beset by scandal, conflict
While other, more pejorative, terms could be used to describe California’s massive legal system these days, let’s just say it’s in disarray, and count the ways. The State Bar, an agency that licenses and oversees hundreds of thousands of California attorneys, has been wracked by financial irregularities and allegations that it has neglected to protect us from unethical or incompetent … [Read more...]
Auditor responds to CJP jurisdiction challenge
Attorneys for the California State Auditor submitted a response Monday to a writ filed last month by the Commission on Judicial Performance challenging the auditor's jurisdiction. The CJP sued Auditor Elaine M. Howle in San Francisco Superior Court in October, seeking to limit the scope of an audit ordered by the Legislature in August. The CJP is the state agency that investigates and … [Read more...]
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