CCChat_The-Jess-Hill-Interview

A conversation with Jess Hill
many don’t really have a frame of
reference, outside of what they
have seen in court and they have
no real understanding of coercive
control.
J: And they don’t have any
interest in getting it.
M: Definitely. They’re not
interested and they don't seem to
want to learn from the people
who could teach them.
J: There’s a lot of trauma in the
advocacy groups. The trauma,
the sense that they’ve been
persecuted within the court, is so
strong and sometimes justified,
in the way that cases are run, in
the family court, the aggression,
how they are talked to by judges
or by certain experts , there’s a
lot of aggression that is used and
certainly in Australia, the
aggression that I have heard used
in court rooms is so unlike other
court rooms, it’s like a space onto
itself. There is a total impasse
between the advocacy groups and
the family law system because
both believe them to be utterly
beyond reform
M: I’ve noticed that but I believe
that, if we are willing to come
together, respect each other’s
viewpoints, even if we don’t
necessarily agree, we can come to
some compromise that is better
than what is currently in place.
J: I think so too. I think the
problem is, and I don’t know if
it’s the same in the UK, there’s
now an industry that surrounds
the family law system,
particularly with single expert
witnesses and there’s money to
be made in covering up DV.
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