The Court of Appeal Judgment on Domestic Abuse

Ause i gather it's very much a go to case on private law or family hearings. And so this case was a conjoined appeals that were listed before the president in the court of appeal, and all of which involved allegations of domestic abuse. So it was really an opportunity for the court of eal to deliver effectively guidance as to how courts should be treating allegations of domestic Abuse. In particular, what came out very clearly is that practice direction 12 j is fit for purpose. It is sufficient. But there are certainly some principles that we can extract from that case, nevertheless, to assist in practice. We know from recent caf cas statistics, just looking at the start of 20 21,