B.C. Solicitor General Kash Heed says he's committed to fighting domestic violence, but couldn't guarantee if or when his government would accept and implement recommendations from a coroner's inquest into a horrific murder-suicide case near Victoria.

Heed only offered support for the 14 recommendations delivered Friday by the coroner's jury stemming from the stabbing deaths of five family members in the community of Oak Bay, B.C. in 2007.

Peter Lee, 38, fatally stabbed his young son, his wife, and her mother and father before killing himself. Lee was on bail on charges of attempting to harm his wife in a staged car crash when the murder-suicide occurred.

The inquest heard domestic violence incidents generate the second highest Crown case files each year, next to impaired driving, but that public information and awareness campaigns about domestic violence are virtually non-existent in British Columbia.

It heard there are about a half dozen police departments who have dedicated domestic violence squads, but there isn't a provincewide approach to domestic violence as there is in Ontario and Alberta.

The province's Assistant Deputy Attorney General Robert Gillen had warned the inquest jury not to recommend expensive Cadillac reforms when the current cash-strapped system was running like a used Ford.

"We are committed to dealing with domestic violence in the province of British Columbia," Heed said in a telephone press conference after the jury delivered its recommendations.

"On the surface, from a lot of those recommendations, those are things that we will look at, those are things that we will determine when and if we can put them in place."

The jury recommended the government provide the funding to accommodate the costs of its recommendations, but Heed would only say some changes can be done within current government structures and extra money may not be required.

The five-member jury called on the government to create a single domestic violence unit and fund provincial campaigns to increase awareness of domestic violence in the province.

The jury recommended the Education Ministry introduce a family violence component in schools -- from kindergarten to Grade 12.

Jurors also called for bail reforms to ensure potential abusers are screened by the court system.

The jurors recommended fitting some accused abusers with global positioning system devices to track movements of some accused abusers granted bail, but without a fixed address.

On Sept. 4, 2007, Lee fatally stabbed his six-year-old son, Christian, his wife, Sunny Park, 33, and her mother, Kum Lea Chun, 59, and father, Moon Kyu Park, 66, before killing himself.

He was under court orders to stay away from the family home when he broke through a basement window and went on a rampage.

The jury recommended the courts be permitted to conduct expert risk assessments on accused abusers during their bail hearings.

The inquest heard that risk assessments prior to bail hearings will require the federal government to amend the Criminal Code, but the assessments would provide the courts with better details about the accused's potential for violence.

Lawyer Diane Turner, who represented a Victoria anti-Family Violence organization, applauded the jury's recommendations, especially the one calling for tighter bail conditions and screening of people facing abuse charges.

She called on the government to immediately implement the recommendations, saying little has been done on the domestic violence front in the more than two years since the Lee family deaths.

"This tragedy occurred in 2007 and here we are in 2009 without any kind of a strategy," said Turner. "It's critical that the people that have been given the responsibility to deal with the recommendations have an action plan within a month or two."

Opposition New Democrat children and family critic Maurine Karagianis said the inquest heard that organizations that offer support and counselling to both victims and perpetrators of domestic violence has endured government funding cuts.

She would have liked to have seen the jury recommend the government introduce separate domestic violence courts in B.C.

The Victoria police department called the jury's recommendations "both valuable and necessary."

In a release late Friday it said "many of the issues raised by the jury are shared" by the department.

"Many members of (Victoria police) were directly involved and impacted by this investigation and we join others in expressing sympathy to those affected by this crime," it said.

The department said it's setting up a domestic violence unit that should begin operating next year.