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Warning issued over protection orders

Author
Josh White,
Publish Date
Fri, 28 Nov 2014, 10:03AM
Photo: File Photo
Photo: File Photo

Warning issued over protection orders

Author
Josh White,
Publish Date
Fri, 28 Nov 2014, 10:03AM

A warning that protection orders can't prevent every tragedy.

Family Law Section chairman Allan Cooke says a protection order is no silver bullet.

"No piece of paper's going to protect someone from being attacked by a former partner who's outraged."

GPS tracking could be the next step, in preventing murders happening while protection orders are in place.

Cooke says protection orders are effective, to a point.

"As a public policy issue, there needs to be some kind of perhaps other form of intervention that would prevent the person coming near a person with a protection order."

Allan Cooke says things like GPS monitoring could form part of that discussion.

 

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