Canada: Fast-track domestic violence cases

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'A B.C. panel has issued 19 recommendations for preventing domestic violence deaths, including fast-tracking cases through the courts and flagging those at high risk of resulting in serious harm or death.
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The panel also called for more consistency and better sharing of information between government agencies when dealing with domestic violence.
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The recommendations come from a study of 11 deaths resulting from domestic violence in B.C. between 1995 and 2009.
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Many of the recommendations are similar to those made at a 2009 coroner's inquest into a Victoria-area murder-suicide that resulted in the deaths of five people.

The inquest was examining the case of Peter Lee, who in September 2007 killed his estranged wife, Sunny Park, their six-year-old son and Park's parents, before committing suicide at the family home in Oak Bay east of Victoria.

The province's chief coroner has given government and law enforcement agencies one month to respond to the recommendations.'