Many ‘coercive control’ cases still going un-charged

Coercive control laws are yet to produce more than a handful of charges and are untested in court. Picture: Diego Fedele/ AAP
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SYDNEY: Despite hundreds of recorded instances, the new domestic violence offence of coercive control has only resulted in a handful of charges since it was first criminalised. New South Wales was the first Australian jurisdiction to make coercive control an offence when landmark legislation passed state parliament in 2022. The laws apply when a person […]

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