Domestic Abuse Practice and Precedents

This essential new book is a fully comprehensive guide to all aspects of domestic abuse. Domestic Abuse outlines the various options, both civil and criminal, and contains the law and procedure relating to applications for injunction orders. Precedents, letters and checklists are provided within the book and on the accompanying FREE CD-ROM, for:

• non-molestation and occupation orders
• Housing Act Injunctions
• forced marriage protection orders
• finding of fact hearings
• Protection from Harassment Act injunctions.

The book takes account of changes made by the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004, the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 and the Practice Direction: Residence and Contact Orders: Domestic Violence and Harm 2009.

Sections within the guide provide information on obtaining evidence and preparing statements and special measures available to enable vulnerable parties to give their best evidence at hearings. There is also an overview of Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs) and how crimes, including breach of a non-molestation order, are dealt with in the new Specialist Domestic Violence Courts.