Identifying and responding to family violence in family law cases: Results from the 2019 Survey of Lawyers and Quebec Notaries on Family Law and Family Violence in Canada (English, PDF)

Identifying and responding to family violence in family law cases: Results from the 2019 Survey of Lawyers and Quebec Notaries on Family Law and Family Violence in Canada: English PDF file. From Department of Justice Canada, updated Nov 2023. View metadata, licence and the direct download on CanQuery.

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This report describes key findings from Justice Canada’s 2019 national Survey of Lawyers and Quebec Notaries on Family Law and Family Violence in Canada (“the 2019 survey”). The purpose of this survey was to assess how legal advisors identify and respond to family violence in their family law practices, as well as their use of additional tools to facilitate the process. In 2019, Justice Canada began developing a toolkit (the HELP toolkit) to support legal advisers in safely identifying and responding to family violence among their family law clients. The development of this toolkit involved multiple research projects to understand the needs of potential users, including the 2019 survey

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