Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Liz Saville Roberts Excerpts
Tuesday 5th December 2017

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dominic Raab Portrait Dominic Raab
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The announcement was made in the Queen’s Speech. We are looking at the parliamentary timetable and we will be able to say something about that shortly.

Liz Saville Roberts Portrait Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd) (PC)
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Perpetrators of domestic violence can currently commit abuse of process by bringing vexatious court actions against their victims, often cross-examining them in person in civil and family courts. Will the Minister consider introducing legislation on that? When will he do it?

Dominic Raab Portrait Dominic Raab
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As I have just said, the legislation was announced in the Queen’s Speech. Obviously, we have a packed parliamentary timetable at the moment, with the EU measure and other aspects of that, but we are committed to introducing legislation and we will announce details soon.