Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Committee
19 March 2026
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Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Committee House of Lords
00:04 - 02:23
Speaker 1
One. Good morning, and welcome to this session of the select committee that is looking at the domestic abuse act, which was introduced in 2021. And this is what's called post legislative scrutiny. So we're looking at the bill of the act of parliament that was created, and we're seeing what its impact has been, and we're looking at the ways in which it has presented opportunities and challenges, and we're hearing from different witnesses today. And so here on this first panel, we have two very distinguished people with us.
We have Kate Brown, who is the chief crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service. Can I welcome you, Kate? It's great to see you here. Kate was appointed the chief crown prosecutor for the CPS at Wessex in June 2024. She's been a prosecutor since 1994, woman and girl, and she has really got considerable expertise in this field.
And it's really wonderful to see you here, Kate, a colleague in the legal profession. And Tanya Allen is the other person who's here, who's a program manager. She she at the Courts and Criminal Justice in an organization called Standing Together. And Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse is a national charity coordinating multi agency responses to domestic abuse. Tanya specializes in improving specialist domestic abuse court coordination.
So there are plenty of challenges in that, and we're very keen keen to see how this new legislation is working out in the courts. So I'm going to just start by asking, I mean, to outline, first of all, I mean, each of you distinctly, your your roles and the or the role of your organization as it plays out in bringing domestic abuse cases before the courts. And what are the particular issues which affect the successful progress of a domestic abuse case in the courts. What can be done to mitigate any of these issues? I mean, I remember back in the in the very short period of time when I did kick such cases, I did them in the criminal courts, but not in the in the family courts.
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