Mentions:
1: Helen Grant (Con - Maidstone and Malling) a crisis in the courts. - Speech Link
2: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) of how the judge-only proposals will affect vulnerable victims of domestic abuse? - Speech Link
3: Lisa Smart (LD - Hazel Grove) when they are hearing Hague convention applications where domestic abuse is alleged? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) told me she thought more than half the women in the camp had directly experienced sexual assault or abuse - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) sustain this awful war.Will the Foreign Secretary update the House on how the UK is using international courts - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Given that at the heart of what Epstein did was the grave abuse and trafficking of women and girls, this - Speech Link
4: Johanna Baxter (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) Will she pursue the perpetrators in the international courts? - Speech Link
5: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Friend knows, we have a domestic ambition and mission to halve violence against women and girls. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) logic behind clause 120 and the concept of a UK representative for overseas businesses that lack a domestic - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) Underlying that, there is presumably some assumption about the level of abuse of this system, so it would - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) shadow Exchequer Secretary’s point about our assessment of the illicit market and the assessment of abuse - Speech Link
4: None Clause 146—the penultimate one in this group, I believe —sets the CBAM charge as the sectoral domestic - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Browning (Con - Life peer) experience—there is a tendency to think that, if we are not quite sure that it says what we mean, the courts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer) This is despite the fact that this group experiences, for example, the highest rates of domestic abuse - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) CEO, Susie McDonald, said: “We are all too aware that 16 to 19 year-olds are at the highest risk of abuse - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lauren Sullivan (Lab - Gravesham) What support he is providing to victims of domestic abuse through the criminal justice system. - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) abuse, by rolling out domestic abuse protection orders—which are lifesaving—and looking at how we can - Speech Link
3: Josh Babarinde (LD - Eastbourne) The new judicial finding of domestic abuse in the Sentencing Act 2026 will help us better identify domestic - Speech Link
4: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) Gentleman is right to highlight the importance of training when it comes to domestic abuse cases. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None by Southall Black Sisters; Roshni, which supports Black and minoritised communities affected by domestic - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) The court has ruled that domestic laws that prohibit abortion do not violate Article 8. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) drafted would carry substantial operational and resource implications for policing, His Majesty’s Courts - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) for personal reasons while failing to guarantee the protection of women who have been a victim of abuse - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) Removing all criminal liability removes an important safeguard and may leave coercion and abuse undiscovered - Speech Link
2: None abuse within the meaning of Section 1 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and where such abuse was a substantial - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hazarika (Lab - Life peer) As I said, she may have been raped, or part of a terrible domestic violence situation where she does - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) abuse, child abuse and trafficking. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) A Michigan prosecutor famously spotted a domestic abuse victim being coerced during a Zoom hearing. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) In Michigan, a prosecutor noticed a domestic abuse victim being coerced off camera during a Zoom hearing - Speech Link
3: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) The impact of increasing domestic abuse was also because there was more recording. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Holocaust-related abuse appears with disturbing frequency, and there has been a sharp rise in the glorification - Speech Link
2: Tom Morrison (LD - Cheadle) systematic involvement and compliance of institutions, including the police, civil servants, universities, courts - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Wetherby and Easingwold) They want to stand up to what is being said, but get pursued down the street and have vicious abuse thrown - Speech Link
4: Melanie Ward (Lab - Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy) violence from taking place ever again, but the warning light is flashing red and it is time for renewed domestic - Speech Link
5: Joani Reid (Lab - East Kilbride and Strathaven) there has undoubtedly been an appalling rise in antisemitic violence and in the public and private abuse - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Had we allowed prisons to overflow—a risk the Conservative party was happy to take—courts would have - Speech Link
2: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) that the former Justice Secretary introduced PAVA into the youth estate, it was challenged in the courts - Speech Link
3: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) She is right that fundamentally this is about the backlog in our Crown courts. - Speech Link
4: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) clearly we are not banning short-term sentences; they are vital in lots of cases, particularly in domestic - Speech Link