By Steve Benmor ( July 30, 2026, 2:36 PM EDT) -- In the two months since the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16, recognizing a new tort of intimate partner violence (IPV) rooted in coercive control, the family law community has produced a wave of discussion, published commentary and CPDs. Nearly all of it, understandably, centres on the survivor: her experiences, her rights, her damages, her long-delayed vindication after a legal system that historically underestimated the cumulative harm of coercive control....