Saw this item on the local news this week and can't believe that as the law stands at the moment victims of domestic violence basically have to hand over their new/safe address to the courts to be read out in front of their abuser and shown on papers served to the abuser; listening to the woman in the ITV interview (it's linked to in the petition page) made me so mad for her. That she was put in a position where because she wanted to take a man guilty of horrendous abuse to court meant she was left with no option but to provide her safe address and within an hour of papers being served he was on her doorstep...
The petition has been started by a woman who is being threatened with imprisonment herself for being in contempt of court for refusing to provide the safe address that her and her children now live at, she's collected about 1000 signatures so far but I'm really hoping that by the power of Mumsnet we can get to the 1500 she needs. Please sign/bump/re-post on a more appropriate bit of the forum, here's the link www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/onevoice-never-silenced-national-domestic-violence-abuse-campaign-supported-by-david-malone-human-rights-barrister