Coercive control law will help survivors, but comes with risk of backlash, MPs told

“Family courts, we’ve seen, have already started labelling survivors of domestic violence as engaging in coercive control because their attempts to keep themselves and their children safe are seen as controlling or alienating,” Zaccour said.

“So if this paragraph is not removed from the offence, abusers will exploit it to threaten survivors with criminalization, and that will make it more difficult to leave an abusive situation.” Full story can be found here.