ABSTRACT

Introduction For many years there have been four jurisdictions under which the client suffering violence or other anti-social conduct on the part of a spouse or cohabitee could seek various orders to restrain the behaviour complained of. These orders are of two types, ie: • for personal protection or non-molestation (ie to

protect both the threatened spouse and the children of the household from such behaviour whether at home or elsewhere); and/or

• for exclusion or ouster of the offending spouse from the home in such a way that that spouse was either restricted to a defined part of the home or actually excluded from it altogether.