AVO Explained

What is an Apprehended Violence Order?

An Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) is an Order made by a court against a man who makes you fear for your wellbeing, to shield you from encourage savagery, terrorizing or provocation. All Apprehended Violence Orders made by the court deny the individual who is causing these feelings of dread from striking, hassling, undermining, stalking, or scaring you. Different conditions can be incorporated.

The individual you fear, known as the respondent, must comply with the Order made by the court. You can contact the police to enable you to apply for an Order, or you can contact your Local Court or Legal Aid NSW for help. There are two sorts of Apprehended Violence Orders:

1. Secured Domestic Violence Order (ADVO)

An Apprehended Domestic Violence Order is made where the general population included are connected, living respectively or in a cozy relationship, or have already been in this circumstance. On account of an Aboriginal individual or Torres Strait Islander, Apprehended Domestic Violence Orders can likewise be made where the general population included are a piece of the kinfolk or more distant family of the other individual. Captured Domestic Violence Orders are likewise accessible to individuals who are or have been in a reliant care course of action with someone else, including paid carers, and to individuals living in the same private office.

2. Secured Personal Violence Order (APVO)

An Apprehended Personal Violence Order is made where the general population included are not related and don't have a residential relationship, for instance, they are neighbors or cooperate.

How would you apply for an Apprehended Violence Order?

You can contact the police and they can make the application for an Apprehended Violence Order for your sake. On the off chance that the police have fears for your security following an episode, they may get a temporary or impermanent Order for you. The police will tell you about the Order and disclose to you when to come to court.

On the other hand, you can make an application all alone at your Local Court. Lawful Aid NSW might have the capacity to help you with your application. By law court staff must enable you to make an application for a captured Domestic Violence Order. You should make a note of the court date given to you at the time you make the application.

The application will tell the litigant (the individual who is causing fears for your security) the date and time they need to go to court. The application will be served on the respondent by the police. You should realize that an application for an Apprehended Personal Violence Order might be declined if the court trusts the application is silly, vexatious or has no sensible shot of achievement. The court may encourage you to look for intervention.

Do you require an attorney?

In the event that the police have connected for an Apprehended Violence Order for your benefit, you needn't bother with a legal counselor as the Police Prosecutor will display the issue in court. In the event that you have connected for an Apprehended Violence Order individually through the Local Court, it is a smart thought to get a legal advisor to speak to you. You can speak to yourself in the event that you need to. Lawful guide is accessible in Apprehended Violence Order matters.

There is an attorney from the Domestic Violence Practitioner Scheme or Legal Aid NSW's Domestic Violence Unit accessible in various Local Courts to give exhortation and help to some Apprehended Domestic Violence Order candidates. They can give guidance with respect to other lawful issues and can be reached through your nearby Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (WDVCAS).

You can likewise contact Legal Aid NSW or Law Access to get counsel and help with abusive behavior at home and also other lawful issues.

What happens when you go to court?

On the off chance that the respondent has been presented with the application yet does not come to court and does not have a justifiable reason purpose behind not going to, the court can make an Order in their nonappearance. Some of the time the police are not ready to serve the litigant with the application when you initially go to court. On the off chance that this happens, your case will be suspended (delayed) to give the police more opportunity to serve the respondent.

You can request that the court make an Interim (impermanent) Order to ensure you amid the time of the dismissal. The Magistrate may need to hear some proof from you to make an Interim Order.

At the point when can the court make an Order?

The court can make an AVO if:

•             the respondent agrees to an AVO being made; or

•             after hearing proof the Magistrate is fulfilled that there are fears for your wellbeing and those feelings of dread are sensible; or

•             the litigant has been served however does not appear at court.

Assent Orders

The Magistrate can make an Apprehended Violence Order if the respondent agrees to the Order being made.

The respondent can assent (concur) to the Order being made, without conceding that they have done anything incorrectly. For this situation, your Order will be made that day.

Interval Orders and hearings

In the event that the respondent does not agree to the Apprehended Violence Order, your case will be deferred for the Magistrate to settle on a choice about whether there are grounds to make the Order. It is vital that you approach the court for an Interim (impermanent) Apprehended Violence Order to ensure you until the hearing.

On the off chance that your issue is deferred for hearing, you might be advised by the Magistrate to supply composed explanations to the court by a specific date. Bearings about these announcements will be given by the court. Your issue will then be recorded for say to check whether both you and the litigant have agreed to the court's headings.

On the off chance that you, the candidate, have neglected to conform to these headings the application might be expelled or the court may arrange you to document any extraordinary proclamations. On the off chance that the respondent does not consent to the heading they will most likely be unable to give any confirmation at the hearing. On the off chance that neither of you conform to this course the application will be expelled.

Once both you and the litigant have conformed to the court's course the issue will be recorded for hearing. It is essential that you go to court for your issue. In the event that you don't go to the application might be expelled. On the off chance that the litigant does not go to the Order might be made in their nonattendance.

What occurs at a hearing?

The hearing will be founded on the confirmation contained in the announcements unless the court enables extra proof or proof to be given verbally. The police may likewise present a video or sound recording taken at the season of an occurrence as your fundamental confirmation. On the off chance that this happens, you should go to court on the off chance that the respondent or their attorney need to put forth more inquiries.

The candidate introduces their case first. The respondent or their legal counselor will then have the chance to put forth and your witnesses inquiries about your confirmation. The litigant at that point has the chance to show their case.

You or your legal advisor (or the Police Prosecutor in a police application) will have the capacity to ask the litigant and their witnesses inquiries regarding their proof. It is up to the candidate to demonstrate to the Magistrate on adjust that an Order ought to be made.

You can converse with your WDVCAS on the off chance that you have to give confirm. Call 1800 WDVCAS (1800 938 227).

What sorts of conditions can be placed in an Apprehended Violence Order?

On the off chance that an Order is made, three conditions will dependably be incorporated. These conditions disallow the accompanying conduct:

•             Assaulting, attacking, pestering, undermining or meddling with the Protected Person; Intimidating the Protected Person;

•             Stalking the Protected Person; and

•             Anyone in a household association with the Protected Person is likewise secured by these conditions. This may incorporate your kids.

Additional conditions might be incorporated into the Order precluding the respondent from:

•             Approaching the Protected Person;

•             Approaching or entering places where the Protected Person may live, work or go to;

•             Approaching the Protected Person, or spots where the Protected Person might be, in the wake of drinking liquor or taking unlawful medications;

•             Damaging property; as well as

•             Any different conditions as concurred by the two gatherings or chose by the court.

Property Recovery Orders

In the event that you have to get your own property and an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order has been made, the court can in the meantime make a Property Recovery Order. This ought to be done on the main date you go to court. A Property Recovery Order permits it is possible that you or the respondent to get individual property from premises. The court can arrange the police to go with the individual recouping property for everybody's security.

What are the outcomes of an Apprehended Violence Order being made?

At the point when an Apprehended Violence Order is made, the respondent does not get a criminal conviction or a criminal record. The points of interest of the Apprehended Violence Order are continued a police database and the police will grab any guns in the respondent's ownership or control.

In the event that the respondent has a guns permit, the permit is naturally denied (drop) for a time of 10 years. On the off chance that the Order is renounced, the respondent can recover their guns permit just on the off chance that they are thought to be a fit and appropriate individual to have a guns permit.

What happens if the litigant ruptures an Apprehended Violence Order?

An Apprehended Violence Order is a court arrange. On the off chance that the litigant ruptures a state of the Order, they might be accused of a criminal offense. You should keep a duplicate of your Apprehended Violence Order on you constantly and call the police if the litigant ruptures any of the conditions recorded on it.

To what extent does an Apprehended Violence Order last?

Your Apprehended Violence Order will keep going for a specific timeframe, for instance, two years. Prior to that period closes, you can apply for an expansion of the Order, as long as despite everything you have a sensible dread of the litigant.


For more information contact Avo Lawyer Melbourne.