Paris ShearsSpeaking & Advocacy
A survivor's perspective on justice.
Paris Shears is a survivor advocate and the founder of Paris's Law. She speaks from lived experience and from her public campaigning, bringing a survivor's perspective to conversations about coercive control and justice reform.
Advocacy themes
What Paris speaks about
- 01
Coercive control and its impact
What coercive control is, how it can build gradually and quietly, and why it is often hard to recognise from the inside — or to evidence from the outside.
- 02
The criminal justice experience of survivors
Reporting, waiting for trial and preparing to give evidence: what the process can ask of survivors, and what helps them through it.
- 03
The impact of late guilty pleas
How a plea entered at the last moment can still earn a sentence reduction, after survivors have spent months preparing to face court.
- 04
Victim-centred justice reform
Why the people most affected by the system should be heard when it is reviewed, and what a more victim-centred approach could look like.
- 05
The development of Paris's Law
From lived experience to a parliamentary petition, more than 100,000 signatures and a Westminster Hall debate. Paris's Law remains a proposed reform.
- 06
Survivor voices in public policy
How lived experience can inform policy debate, and the care needed when survivors share their stories in public.
Formats
Media and events
- Television and radio interviews
- Newspaper and digital features
- Podcasts and long-form conversations
- Panels, conferences and events
Interview guidance
To help every conversation be safe and accurate:
- Please share the subject and main questions in advance.
- Paris will say which parts of her experience she is comfortable discussing; she may decline any question.
- Please avoid graphic reconstruction, and add a content note and support information where appropriate.
- Please do not publish details of Paris's location, family or private life.
- Please use only images Paris has supplied or approved.
Enquiries