ABSTRACT
This entire area of family law is now governed by Pt IV of the Family Law Act (FLA) 1996, which was implemented in the autumn of 1997, and repealed the former domestic violence specific law in its entirety. Although injunctions under the inherent jurisdiction of the court ancillary to other proceedings remain a possibility, now that there is a codified framework specifically to address violence and harassment within the family, neither such an ancillary order nor any of the other new statutory provisions designed to prevent and restrain such anti-social activity generally will usually be appropriate in a family context when the FLA 1996 has specifically provided for the purpose.
