Simon Sugar has contributed the second article in his two-part series on the topic of domestic abuse in financial remedy proceedings for Resolution's The Review.

The first part, published in the previous issue of The Review, discussed the idea that domestic abuse was better identified by using a systematic approach. Once domestic abuse has been identified, victim-survivors require implementation of a tailor-made litigation strategy to achieve the best outcome.

An effective strategy requires consideration of numerous different interwoven threads of law, practice and procedure. As with identification, the most effective way to develop a comprehensive strategy and to avoid the risk of omission, will be to use a checklist as a form of “cognitive net”.

Without being prescriptive, a suggested checklist involves consideration of six Ps: proaction, protection, payment, participation, presumption and police. Some – but by no means all – of the matters falling within each P are considered below.

The article forms part of The Review's 242nd edition and you can read both Part 1 and Part 2 via the links below.