Family Violence Bench Book

There has been some information about intervention orders on the Judicial College website for a while.There is a 12-page overview, a summary of important provisions, and some checklists. These have been around since the legislation was overhauled 3 years ago and are useful for practitioners trying to get to grips with the system. Recently the …

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Relevance of motive

Relevance is described at s 55 of the Evidence Act 2008,55. Relevant evidence(1) The evidence that is relevant in a proceeding is evidence that, if it were accepted, could rationally affect (directly or indirectly) the assessment of the probability of the existence of a fact in issue in the proceeding.(2) In particular, evidence is not …

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