Solicitor General Harriet Harman must be feeling pleased. Women being victimised by domestic violence are getting unprecedented support from the Home Office in the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill introduced in October.
Women have come a long way since the first refuge for battered women was set up by the women's liberation movement 30 years ago. Ms Harman has championed battered women and Women's Aid refuges, and this legislation is the outcome.
Public and professional awareness will be the key to making this law work.
Scotland pioneered eloquent consciousness-raising publicity, first with poignant Zero Tolerance posters which covered buses and walls in the early 90s, revealing the raw statistics on the scale of abuse. The campaign was borrowed all over the world.
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