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When Coercive Control meets Family Law: The Responsibilities of Legal Practitioners

Domestic violence comes in many forms, including the growing recognition of coercive control. This session will explore the nature of coercive control, its criminalisation in some jurisdictions and the role family law practitioners need to play in its identification and relevance

About the Podcast

Domestic violence comes in many forms, including the growing recognition of coercive control. This session will explore the nature of coercive control, its criminalisation in some jurisdictions and the role family law practitioners need to play in its identification and relevance to their clients’ respective family law dispute, including:

  • The origin and meaning of “coercive control” and identifying relevant behaviours
  • State legislation and coercive control – definitions and offences
  • How does the Family Law Act take into account of behaviour which can be described as coercive control?
  • A discussion of indicative behaviours and examples, including the cases of Hannah Clark and Preethi Reddy
  • Is withholding a child from seeing the other parent coercive control? Carter & Wilson [2023] FedCFamC1A 9
  • The intersection of family law and coercive control and the obligations of legal practitioners
  • How the courts are dealing with coercive control, including The Lighthouse Project
  • The role of the National Principles to Address Coercive Control in Family and Domestic Violence (Commonwealth) and potential federal and State legislative reforms
  • The impact of coercive control in relation to property settlements as a result of recent reforms

Presented By

Stephen Page
Director & Accredited Family Law Specialist, Page Provan Brisbane, Qld

Stephen is a director of Page Provan, family and fertility lawyers in Brisbane. He was admitted in 1987 and has been an accredited family law specialist since 1996. Stephen was an independent children’s lawyer between 2007 and 2023.

Stephen is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. He is an international representative on the ART Committee of the American Bar Association. He is the Secretary of the Fertility Society of Australia and New Zealand.

For many years, Stephen served on the committees of domestic violence organisations, including co-founding a domestic violence service.

Stephen has presented at many conferences throughout Australia and internationally. He is the author of many articles, two chapters and two books: When Not If: Surrogacy for Australians (2022) and International Assisted Reproductive Technology (2024).

Among other awards, Stephen has received the inaugural Pride in Law Award (2020) and the Queensland Law Society President's Medal (2023).

CPD Information

0.5 CPD units

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