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Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022

The provisions of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022 were referred to the Standing Committee on Social Issues for inquiry and report on 18 October 2022.

A video recording of the hearing is available on the NSW Parliament's YouTube channel here.

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Terms of reference - Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022

Date	Milestone
18 Oct 2022	Referred
30 Oct 2022	Submissions closed
31 Oct 2022	Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
04 Nov 2022	Final Report
08 Nov 2022	Government Response to Final Report

No. 1 Name suppressed
No. 1a Name suppressed
No. 2 Cult Information and Family Support (CIFS NSW)
No. 3 Legal Aid New South Wales
No. 4 Multiple signatories care of Women's Legal Service NSW
No. 5 Confidential
No. 6 Full Stop Australia

DateSort	Report Name	Tabled Date	Government Response
	Government response - Report No 62 - Standing Committee on Social Issues - Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022 (PDF)	08/11/2022
	Report No 62 - Standing Committee on Social Issues - Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022 (PDF)	04/11/2022

DateSort	Date	Type	Title
2022-11-04	04/11/2022	Media Release	Coercive Control Bill Tabled
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Correspondence	Attorney General, Mark Speakman, in response to questions raised at the Hearing on the drafting of the Bill
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Document entitled 'Suggested additional review provisions' - tabled by Ms Renata Field, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Domestic Violence NSW
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Document entitled 'Selection of research studies' - tabled by Dr Jane Wangmann, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law at UTS
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Document entitled 'Proposed actions to address systemic misidentification' - tabled by Ms Liz Snell, Law Reform and Policy Co-ordinator, Women’s Legal Service NSW
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Open letter to the Attorney General from the NSW Women's Alliance - tabled by Ms Renata Field, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Domestic Violence NSW
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Extract from Queensland legislation - tabled by Ms Liz Snell, Law Reform and Policy Co-ordinator, Women’s Legal Service NSW
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Table of recommendations and response from NSW Police from the NSW Auditor-General's report entitled 'Police responses to domestic and family violence' - tabled by Dr Bridget Mottram, Senior Policy Officer - WDVCAS Program, Domestic Violence NSW
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Letter to the committee by six members of the Domestic Violence NSW Lived Experience Policy Advisory Group - tabled by Dr Bridget Mottram, Senior Policy Officer - WDVCAS Program, Domestic Violence NSW
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Report by the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research entitled 'Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 and the Criminal Justice System' - tabled by Ms Renata Field, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Domestic Violence NSW
2022-10-31	31/10/2022	Tabled Document	Report by Domestic Violence NSW entitled 'Policing of Domestic and Family Violence in NSW' - tabled by Dr Bridget Mottram, Senior Policy Officer - WDVCAS Program, Domestic Violence NSW
2022-10-20	20/10/2022	Media Release	Parliamentary inquiry opens into the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022

Name	Role	Phone	Email
Sharon Ohnesorge	Clerk Assistant - Procedure	9230 3389	[email protected]
Jessie Halligan	Principal Council Officer	9230 2064	[email protected]
Andrew Ratchford	Senior Council Officer	9230 3672	[email protected]

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