Domestic Violence Act 1995 Flashcards
Violence means-
Physical abuse, Sexual abuse, Pschological abuse (including but not limited to) intimidation, harassment, damage to property, threats of physical abuse, sexual abuse or psychological abuse. Financial or economic abuse.
True or False?
True.
A person psychologically abuses a child if that person does what?
A. Causes or allows the child to see or hear the physical, sexual or psychological abuse of a person that child has a domestic relationship with or puts them at real risk of seeing or hearing the abuse.
A person who suffers physical, sexual or psychological abuse in front of their child is just as liable as the perpetrator for the psychological abuse the child suffers as a consequence.
True or False.
False. The person who suffers the abuse is not regarded for the purpose of this act to have caused or allowed the child to see or hear the abuse or put at risk df doing so.
In order to establish whether a person has a close personal relationship with another person the court must consider what?
The nature and intensity of the relationship. Amount of time they spend together. The place or places where that time is ordinarily spent. The manner in which that time is ordinarily spent and duration of the relationship.
In order to have a close personal relationship with another person the relationship must be sexual.
True or False?
False.
Under the Domestic Violence Act 1995 what is deemed to be not a domestic relationship.
Select mone or more.
A. Has a close personal relationship with the other person.
B. A landlord tenant relationship.
C. Is a family member of the other person.
C. An employee and employer relationship.
B. A landlord tenant relationship
C. An employee and employer relationship
A domestic relationship can include flat mates and boarders who ordinarily share a household together.
True or False.
True.
