Undue Influence

Undue Influence - Lack of mental capacity - Lack of Knowledge and Approval - Inheritance Act claims - Coercive Control - Psychological Violence

• Crown Prosecution Service - Prosecutors focus on ‘love-bombing’ and other manipulative behaviours when charging controlling offences

• Inheritance Disputes - Can wills be contested?

• Hedges - The drip, drip of poisonous lies…

• SafeLives - Psychological Violence

• SafeLives - What is domestic abuse?

• Types of domestic abuse

  Domestic abuse takes many forms and can involve a range of behaviour, such as:

  Coercive or controlling behaviour

  Physical abuse

  Sexual abuse

  Economic and financial abuse

  Psychological and emotional abuse

  ‘Honour’-based abuse and forced marriage

  Stalking and Harassment

  Online and digital abuse

• OMID - The Long-Term Effects of Psychological Violence

• Legislation - Serious Crime Act 2015

• Procedures Online -Controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship

• SafeLives - Psychological abuse

• SOS Violence Conjugale - 8 tactics of psychological violence used by abusers in intimate relationships

• Love bombing

• Gaslighting and Lies

• Negging

• Emotional manipulation

• Cold Shouldering

• Social restriction

• Sleep deprivation

• Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO)

• Somerset DA - The impact of domestic abuse on mental health – beyond PTSD

• CPS - Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship

• SafeLives - Coercive control

• SafeLives - Responding to perpetrators