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B.C. announces new measures to combat intimate partner violence
B.C. introduces a provincial framework and standardized risk assessments to improve justice system responses to intimate partner violence, supporting recent federal legal reforms.
- B.C. announced new measures to combat intimate partner violence, including a comprehensive policy framework and standardized risk assessments across the legal system.
- The proposed changes would treat murders driven by control, hate, sexual violence or exploitation against women as first-degree femicide.
- The province aims to ensure justice for victims' families by considering patterns of abuse as evidence of premeditation in murder cases.
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B.C. announces new measures to combat intimate partner violence
British Columbia's attorney general has announced new provincial measures aimed at combating intimate partner violence, while calling newly tabled federal legislation "a step toward justice." Nikki Sharma says the province will be establishing a comprehensive provincial framework policy to...
·Kelowna, Canada
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