Family Law

Immigrant women are not only at greater risk of experiencing domestic violence but they also under-utilize mainstream services because their needs are not adequately met there. Based on interviews with service providers from the immigration, criminal justice and family justice systems in four different communities in BC, this book examines the barriers encountered by abused immigrant women across Canada as they seek services and support, and identifies the key challenges for abused immigrant women accessing services as well as the struggles service organizations experience in meeting their needs.

This work delivers a comprehensive treatment of the various topics that fall under the ambit of domestic violence. It includes discussion of the complex intersection of family law, civil law, and criminal law in cases of domestic violence, balancing substantive law, and the practice of law.

This handbook is a timely text offering an overview of how to manage situations of domestic violence in the context of separation and divorce; providing direction for recognizing and addressing the issues that result.

A quarter-century after R v Lavallee – which expanded the parameters of self-defence to include the experiences of abused women – R v Ryan limited the legal options for women seeking to escape intimate partner terrorism. No Legal Way Out is an unabashedly feminist analysis that explains why the court, the police, and the media let down all women trapped by abuse.