Lawyers Manual - Unified Court System

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Evolution of the Justice System’s Response 7
1. Laws of 1994, ch 222, 224.
2. Violence Against Women Act of 1994, Pub L No. 103-322 (1994).
3. Laws of 1996, ch 85.
4. Laws of 1997, ch 4.
5. Laws of 1999, ch 635.
6. For example, abusers frequently make false police complaints, file for
orders of protection, or accuse their victims of child abuse as a means of
deflecting the court’s attention away from their own illegal conduct.
7. Women in the Courts: A Work in Progress; 15 Years After the Report of the
New York Task Force on Women in the Courts, New York State Judicial
Committee on Women in the Courts, April 2002. The New York State
Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts has been long and heroically
chaired by the Honorable Betty Weinberg Ellerin, former Presiding Justice
of the Appellate Division, First Department.
8. Id. at 12-13.
9. See e.g. In Harm’s Way: Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment, National
Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information; M. McKay, The Link
between Domestic Violence and Child Abuse: Assessment and Treatment
Considerations, Child Welfare, Vol LXXIII, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1994).