A WOMAN beaten up by the man she lives with has the right to exclade him from their shared home even if he has property JUDE reports.
Five Law Lords unanimously / decided on 9 March thai the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceodings Act, 1976 can be unmarried woman from her male companion.
TE LENS TOMENL the proviso that this could only: be done on a tem porary basis No definite time limit has been set, but Lord Salmon (one of the five), mentioned a period of three months as a reasonabic maximum time that could be excluded from his own property: play It is undoubtedly a step who rights.
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La man this case orward for woren that the that SMACUNK MELOE CELELI by a County Court to exciude a man trom his coungl flar. He had been making life hell for the woman he lived with and her two year old child. But we should not regard it as a Althouch the Law Lords reachod a satisfactory verdiet in women have no guarantee that County Courts will take this view of all cases IENNIFER DAVIS and her daughter whose situetion led to the Law Londs' decisio NOTEUETEK CEN LORE OLUS case a greal deal of symplathy WAS DEDUK DUA DEH situation of the child.
This sympathy is needed for all women who find temselves jon at the mercy of viblent men, regardeless of wbethet they have children or not.
Finally, although the law now allows men to be esciuded from their homes to protect the women und children, the man LI CCI US HAZCI TOHUE Aslong as the present situation of housing shortage continues il may take a lot longer than three months for a woman to find alternative accomodatAnd she is still in the situation where she салной •GOLLUS SuDa ib Ud ber home unless she is married