There is already plenty that can be done under current legislation. It is just not enforced.

*sigh* why do we always think following a nation that puts a bigger percentage of it's population than any other on earth in jail yet has more violent crime than any other developed nation is a good idea? Do these fools really think the perpetrators of violence against their partners are really making some rational calculation, the prospect of a heavier sentence would become a key mitigating factor in?

Longer sentences are not a deterrent. They never have been, they never will be. Because people don't commit crime with the expectation of getting caught.

If the law has resulted in a dramatic increase in both reports and convictions, which according to the report has been the case in America, then it seems reasonable enough to me. After all, the activity involved is very naughty, so maybe people who do that sort of thing should go to jail.

Knowing several women and a man that have been on the receiving end of domestic violence, I think a specific law looking into the history of the violence would be good, although a prison sentence of up to 14 years is probably the wrong way to go. These people need help with their aggression and need to be kept away from their partners until they are no longer a danger (and in that time, hopefully the victims will have realised they are better off without their abusive partner, that is often the biggest hurdle). Locking them up isn't going to solve the problem.

How does this allow for prior false accusations?
My brother-in-law's wife accused him off domestic violence as she knew she could speed up the divorce that way. In reality there was no violence at all.

14 years inside will be icing on the cake for women not wanting to allow access to the kids after a divorce.