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The Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 was:
'An Act to amend the law relating to matrimonial injunction; to provide the police with powers of arrest for the breach of injunction in cases of domestic violence; to amend section 1(2) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967; to make provision for varying rights of occupation where both spouses have the same rights in the matrimonial home; and for purposes connected therewith.' (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/50/introduction/enacted)

The Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates Courts Act 1978 was:
'An Act to make fresh provision for matrimonial proceedings in magistrates’ courts; to amend enactments relating to other proceedings so as to eliminate certain differences between the law relating to those proceedings and the law relating to matrimonial proceedings in magistrates’ courts; to extend section 15 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949; to amend Part II of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952; to amend section 2 of the Administration of Justice Act 1964; to amend the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972; to amend certain enactments relating to adoption; and for purposes connected with those matters.' (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/22/introduction)

The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 was:
'An Act to amend the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 so far as it restricts the time within which proceedings for divorce or nullity of marriage can be instituted; to amend that Act, the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 and the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 so far as they relate to the exercise of the jurisdiction of courts in England and Wales to make provision for financial relief or to exercise related powers in matrimonial and certain other family proceedings; to make provision for financial relief to be available where a marriage has been dissolved or annulled, or the parties to a marriage have been legally separated, in a country overseas; to make related amendments in the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 and the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975; to make provision for the distribution and transfer between the High Court and county courts of, and the exercise in those courts of jurisdiction in, family business and family proceedings and to repeal and re-enact with amendments certain provisions conferring on designated county courts jurisdiction in matrimonial proceedings; to impose a duty to notify changes of address on persons liable to make payments under maintenance orders enforceable under Part II of the Maintenance Orders Act 1950 or Part I of the Maintenance Orders Act 1958; and for connected purposes.' (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/42/introduction)

For a definition of the Legal Aid Act 1988 see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/34/section/16/enacted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1985:
'[The Act's] main effect was to abolish the six county councils of the metropolitan counties that had been set up in 1974 ... by the Local Government Act 1972, along with the Greater London Council that had been established in 1965. In their place many single purpose authorities known collectively as 'joint authorities' were established for fire service, police and passenger transport. An ad hoc education authority was established for Inner London and a planning authority for Greater London. The legislation permitted councils to form 'joint arrangements' for waste disposal and other services that they wished to provide together. Time-limited residuary bodies were created to dispose of the assets of the former authorities.'

Erin Pizzey (b. 1939) established Chiswick Women's Aid (now the charity Refuge) in 1971, the first of many women's shelters to be set up by her in and around London. Pizzey later sparked a major backlash from women's groups after claiming that women in conflicting situations were just as prone to violence - if not more so - than their male partners and that violence within intimate relationships was a form of addictive learned behaviour derived from experiences of childhood trauma, a realisation which prompted Pizzey to thereafter campaign in support of men's rights movements such as ManKind Initiative and the US-based A Voice for Men.

Language note: Some (very little) Welsh.