Moved by
Baroness Chakrabarti
82: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—
“Parental alienation in criminal domestic abuse cases
In section 1 of the Children Act 1989, after subsection (7) insert—
“(8) Anyone involved in the case who is also a victim (of criminal conduct) within section 1 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (meaning of “victim”) cannot be considered by the family court as a potential perpetrator of parental alienation.””
Member’s explanatory statement
This clause would seek to ensure that victims under this Bill could not be disadvantaged by considerations of parental alienation in the family court.