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Australia Report:
AUSTRALIA - FAMILY VIOLENCE - A NATIONAL LEGAL RESPONSE - REPORT 2010
The Australia Final Report, Family
Violence—A National Legal Response was launched on 11 November 2010.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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AUSTRALIA - FAMILY VIOLENCE REPORT
2010
The Report is extensive, presented in
two volumes with a Summary Report. Recommendations are focused on improving
safety through:
- A
common interpretative framework—establishing
a shared understanding of what constitutes family violence across relevant
legislative schemes.
- Corresponding
jurisdictions—expanding the jurisdiction of courts
dealing with family violence to maximise the chance that families will be
able to get all the legal protections they need from any court they
approach.
- Specialist
family violence practice—fostering expertise within
magistrates courts with staff who understand the dynamics of family
violence and the complex array of legislation that applies.
- Improving
police and prosecutorial practice—to
produce safe, fair and just outcomes for victims.
- Integrated
responses—ensuring that the many services
needed by those who suffer family violence work together, building a
better and shared understanding of violence and a national system of
registration of family violence orders.
- Alternative
dispute resolution—developing ADR responses, but
with careful and appropriate protections for those who are the victims of
violence.
- Training
and information—underpinning legal changes by
better understandings of family violence across the whole system,
including a national family violence bench book and a national register of
relevant orders.
In
addition, sexual assault in the context of family violence is the subject of
numerous recommendations to improve legal frameworks, including reducing
attrition rates for sexual assault cases and improving the experience of
victims in the courts.