Member

My Amendment 356B seeks to extend Section 35 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 to make domestic abuse protection orders suitable for a digital age. While the law is clear that a court may, by a domestic abuse protection order, impose any requirement that the court considers necessary to protect the person, and the law makes a list of suggestions under subsections (4) to (6), with examples of the type of provision that may be made, these suggestions tend to relate to physical locality. It is possible already under the law for someone to make an order that includes tech-facilitated abuse, but my concern and that of Refuge is that it may be dependent on the knowledge that the person imposing the order has of this form of abuse.