Web resource:	http://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/Review%2Bof%2BFamily%2BViolence%2BLaws%2BReport.pdf
Type:	Report
Title:	Report (Victorian Law Reform Commission)
Authors:	Victorian Law Reform Commission
Keywords:	Policing;Legislation analysis;Criminal justice responses;Protection orders
Year:	2006
Publisher:	Victorian Law Reform Commission
Notes:	Report summary may be found at: http://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/Law+Reform/resources/file/ebeb724e322910c/Review%20of%20Family%20Violence%20Laws%20Summary%20WEBSITE%20VERSION%20ONLY.pdf "This report reflects the law as at December 2005"--T.p. verso. This is the Victorian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report on the Crimes (Family Violence) Act 1987. This includes the experiences and narratives of victims of family violence. It makes recommendations on the justice system and family violence, based on research about family violence, the law, and the processes of Victoria Police and the Magistrates’ Court. Consultations were conducted with victims, organisations working to support victims, magistrates, registrars, government departments, police and lawyers. Experiences of people working in Tasmania and Western Australia who are implementing changes to family violence legislation are included. A consultation paper in November 2004 and a publication, the Outline and Questions, had been published earlier. In August 2005, the Family Violence Police Holding Powers Interim Report was also published. The report contains 12 chapters. They include: introduction and background with an outline of the current Victorian policy directions and developments in Chapter 1; recognising family violence (what is family violence, dynamics, myths, family violence and diversity, impacts of family violence, and law reform) in Chapter 2; effective legal response (family violence and human rights, criminal response, civil response, best approach, principles clauses, purposes and principles for a new Family Violence Act, alternatives to the justice system such as restorative justice) in Chapter 3; defining family violence and family member (problems with current grounds as a definition, reasons for a new definition, grounds for getting an order) in Chapter 4; police response (improving criminal prosecutions; civil police response, improving police intervention order applications, police role in enforcing breaches of intervention orders) in Chapter 5; access to the magistrates’ court (cultural change in court, legal information and assistance, improving access to intervention orders, improving access for marginalised groups, safety in courts) in Chapter 6; getting an interim order in Chapter 7; getting a final order in Chapter 8; contents of the order in Chapter 9; after the order is made in Chapter 10; making it easier to give evidence in Chapter 11; and beyond the legal system in Chapter 12.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/19756
ISBN:	9780975700693
Physical description:	xlvi, 459 p. ; 25 cm.
Appears in Collections:	Reports

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