Domestic violence: what criminal offences might be committed? [Family and crime legal explainer]

Domestic violence affects both men and women alike. It's been on the increase lately and affects a great many people every year, as well as their families and children. But what criminal offences might somebody have committed if they are alleged to have been involved in domestic violence? 0:00 - Intro 0:28 - Violence: assault and battery 2:08 - Violence: ABH and GBH 3:16 - Coercive and controlling behaviour 4:15 - What happens once domestic violence is reported? MY BOOKS Employment Law Handbook - http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk Resolving Grievances - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/gr... Constructive Dismissal - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/co... Employee Investigations - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/in... Deconstructing TUPE - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/tupe All small books - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books FREE STUFF Employment law updates - http://www.danielbarnett.co.uk Employer’s guide to redundancy - https://go.danielbarnett.com/free/red... Podcast - https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast Sources of free legal advice (video) -    • 15 ways to get FREE legal advice   Deconstructing TUPE (video course) - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/... PRODUCTS, MEMBERSHIPS AND COURSES: Virtual Employment Law Academy - https://virtualemploymentlawacademy.com The HR Inner Circle - https://hrinnercircle.co.uk HR Policies - https://policies2023.com Chat GPT for lawyers & HR - https://danielbarnett.com/chatgpt/ Getting Redundancy Right - https://gettingredundancyright.com Changing Terms and Conditions course - https://courses.virtualemploymentlawa... Marketing your Employment Law Practice - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/... Own-branded email updates for solicitors - www.employmentlawbulletins.com WHO AM I: I'm Daniel Barnett, an employment law and HR barrister. I advise and represent clients in employment tribunal litigation. I have my main website (http://www.danielbarnett.co.uk) and work out of a set of Chambers in London (http://www.outertemple.com). I have a weekly podcast (https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast) and am often asked to speak on the national and international legal and HR lecture circuits. I’ve written about fifteen legal textbooks (the main one is http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk) and run a membership club for smart, ambitious HR Professionals (http://www.hrinnercircle.co.uk). I present the legal hour on LBC Radio (http://www.lbc.co.uk), the UK’s leading commercial talk radio station, at 9pm every Saturday night. CONTACT ME: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Twitter / X:   / daniel_barnett   Mailing list: https://www.danielbarnett.co.uk/site/... Podcast: https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast Subscribe to this channel - click ‘SUBSCRIBE’ above Tweeting @daniel_barnett directly is the quickest way to get a response. Sadly there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭, but I promise I read all messages. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This video is published by Employment Law Services Limited. The information in this video is for general guidance only and, although the presenters and publisher believe it was correct at the time it was recorded (February 2021), the law may have changed since then. You should always seek your own independent legal advice. Please note that for employment law, the law explained applies to England, Scotland and Wales. For all other areas of law, it applies to England only. PS: Some of the links in this description are to my own products or are affiliate links that I get a commission from.