ABSTRACT
Occupation of the Home6 INTRODUCTION When a relationship deteriorates, it will often be necessary to examine what protection from personal violence is available. There is also the issue of who should occupy the former home. These areas of law have, in the past, been criticised as a ‘hotchpotch of enactments’ per Lord Scarman in Richards v Richards (1984), and have undergone reform and rationalisation in the Family Law Act 1996. Part IV of the Act dealing with these matters came into force in 1997.
