Writing for HuffPost UK, solicitor general Ellie Reeves MP says the law has transformed the way violence against women and ...

Domestic abuse isn’t just physical. People can be subject to assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation that is used to punish or frighten them – this is known as coercive control. Coercive ...

POLICE have received more than 100 reports of coercive control a month since new legislation was introduced in Northern Ireland earlier this year. Other figures released by the PSNI also reveal that ...

CHANGES to the law have finally made psychological abuse within a relationship illegal. The offence of coercive control now recognises that domestic abuse can take several forms and is not strictly ...

More than 400 crimes of coercive control have been recorded since legislation came into force this year. Coercion includes tactics like isolating a partner, financial control, monitoring their ...

New domestic abuse laws have come into force in Northern Ireland. Stormont passed legislation making coercive control a specific offence in January last year. Coercive control includes psychological ...

COERCIVE control is now considered to be a form of abuse and was enshrined in UK law in 2015. It was dramatised in Radio 4’s 2016 long-running series The Archers. Here we fully explain what it is.

WHEN a memory of a day trip was reimagined by her former partner, Mary began to wonder if she was losing her mind. The Co Tyrone woman was constantly being told by her ex that she was too sensitive, ...

Stormont passed legislation making coercive control a specific offence in January last year. Coercive control includes psychological and financial abuse and non-violent intimidation. Justice Minister ...