Across jurisdictions, survivors of gender-based violence face legal systems that are formally open but structurally hostile. Such environments are often shaped by embedded structural inequalities and gender stereotypes and a poor understanding of trauma and abuse. Survivors may reach court yet experience revictimisation, criminalisation, silencing, institutional violence in custody disputes, hostile welfare agencies and ineffective legal aid – so “access to court” rarely means access to justice.

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