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@DrEmmaKatz Thanks for your support! We are pushing for change along with @riverlightorg and @Right2Equality to end the lack of transparency in family courts as a result of prohibitively expensive transcripts that evidence victim-blaming and bias. You can donate to the crowdfunder below:

Research by herEthical AI reveals attitude of disbelief and ‘stereotypical assumptions’ about survivors in England and Wales theguardian.com/law/2024/oct/0…

@David_Challen And to find out a bit more about us, here is our website: herethical.ai

@David_Challen Thank you so much for your support, David. We are looking to support survivors in evidencing their victim blaming in courts by helping them to buy their transcripts. You can donate here.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-abus…

Coming as no surprise to anyone, new research has found that judges in the family courts are using ‘victim-blaming and gender-biased language’ towards domestic abuse survivors. AI analysis of judgments and appeals in England and Wales reveals examples through the research including characterising a woman as a “deeply troubled mother with mental health difficulties unrelated to the father’s behaviour”; referring to an attempted strangling as a possible “prank”; or concluding that it was improbable that an “educated professional” would not speak to anyone else while “inappropriate and wrong” sexual relations were happening. The important findings are the result of a project called herEthical AI, which trains computers to identify attitudes among judges that it warns is resulting in the retraumatisation of domestic abuse survivors in the family courts. The idea for the project originated with a campaign called ‘Breaking Bias’ run by @Right2Equality. @DrProudman, its founder and a barrister, said the AI model could “look through the nitty gritty to find patterns of behaviour in the language used” and reveal “stereotypical assumptions” about victims of domestic abuse, as well as a lack of understanding around coercive and controlling behaviour and how trauma impacts memory. ➡️ theguardian.com/law/2024/oct/0…

theguardian.com/law/2024/oct/0… @Guardian have published a piece on the important work we are doing to reform the family courts, who are retraumatising abuse survivors. Please donate to our crowdfunder to support our work. Link in comments. #FamilyCourt #domesticabuse #aiforgood

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