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Letters from doctors, following video or telephone consultations, which offer evidence of domestic abuse will now be accepted by courts in England and Wales for legal aid applications.<\/p>\n
The change was a provision in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 which took effect on 17 October. Others include:<\/p>\n
Once granted new Domestic Abuse Protection Notices and Domestic Abuse Protection Orders, domestic abuse survivors will also be eligible for legal aid. However, those notices and orders will only be implemented following a future pilot scheme.<\/p>\n
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Letters from doctors, following video or telephone consultations, which offer evidence of domestic abuse will now be accepted by courts in England and Wales for legal aid applications. The change was a provision in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 which took effect on 17 October. Others include: ensuring special guardians, family members or friends who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}