What does domestic abuse look like?

And what can the courts do when they recognise it?

An important ruling on domestic abuse will be delivered by the Court of Appeal in a few weeks’ time. It will provide much-needed guidance for family judges in England and Wales who have to deal, in an estimated 22,000 cases a year, with issues such as partner rape and coercive control. When the last such guideline judgment was issued more than 20 years…