Survivors of Domestic Abuse Describe Navigating Ireland’s Family Law System as ‘Even Worse than the Abuse' - 04/06/2025
Some adult victim-survivors of domestic abuse have described navigating Ireland’s family law system as ‘even worse than the abuse’, prompting fresh calls for urgent reforms.The description is contained in groundbreaking new research which has found a system that causes ‘secondary victimisation’, with adult and child victim-survivors of domestic abuse being retraumatised during guardianship, custody, and access proceedings.The research, commissioned by Women’s Aid and carried out by Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork, is the first national account of its kind.CEO of Women’s…
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