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Title: Apprehended Violence Orders (AVOs) information for applicants and persons in need of protection
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Title: Apprehended violence orders (AVOs) information for defendants
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Title: Are you an older woman? do you feel safe at home?
About: Available in Chinese, Italian, Macedonian, Portugese
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Title: Domestic violence - Hot Topics series No 66
About: Practical information on how to get an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO), court processes, breaching, varying and revoking an AVO. Provides contact details for legal advice, counselling and court support services.
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Title: Domestic violence and AVO
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Title: Just a piece of paper: making your AVO work for you
About: Helps women understand their rights and responsibilities once they have obtained an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) with suggestions for making an AVO more effective. It covers police response; the importance of reporting breaches; personal record keeping; aiding and abetting/entrapment; cross AVO's; AVO's and children; AVO's and family law; varying an AVO and following up on police action.
Author: Livermore, Maree,
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Title: Walking through the courts
About: An excellent introduction to the process of getting and apprehended violence order. Also available in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese
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Books in public libraries

Title: Domestic violence Chapter 21: The law handbook 11th edition
About: What is domestic violence? Covers the role of police, protection of children, counselling, legal remedies such as apprehended violence orders (AVOs) and apprehended domestic violence orders (ADVOs).
Where: Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title

Title: Just a piece of paper: making your AVO work for you
About: Helps women understand their rights and responsibilities once they have obtained an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) with suggestions for making an AVO more effective. It covers police response; the importance of reporting breaches; personal record keeping; aiding and abetting/entrapment; cross AVO's; AVO's and children; AVO's and family law; varying an AVO and following up on police action.
Author: Livermore, Maree,
Where: Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title

Title: Domestic violence - Hot Topics series No 66
About: Practical information on how to get an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO), court processes, breaching, varying and revoking an AVO. Provides contact details for legal advice, counselling and court support services.
Where: Check your public library.
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A Hot Topics title

Lawyers' Tools

Title: Criminal practice and procedure
About: Criminal procedure, evidence, appeals from Magistrates decisions, sentencing, criminal responsibility, the Crimes Act, trial procedure, bail, drugs, summary and indictable offences, road traffic offences and the Australian Road Rules, firearms, children and criminal law, mental health, defence costs, confiscation, victims, administration of sentences, indictments, coronial inquiries, and the Coroners Court, investigatory commissions such as the ICAC, Royal Commissions, the Police Integrity Commission. Location number Ref/NQ345.94405/7 and
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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Title: Local Court criminal practice NSW
About: Covers advocacy, appeals, arrest and search, assault and related offences, bail, call overs and mentions, commital hearings, costs, domestic violence, apprehended violence orders (AVOs), drugs, firearms, listening devices, motor traffic, please and sentencing, police questioning, evidence, property offences, search warrants, summary and indictable offences, telephone interceptions, victims compensation. Location number Ref/NQ345.3440102/1 and online (For onsite clients only).
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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Title: Redfern Legal Centre's lawyers practice manual
About: Information about lawyer/client relationship, criminal law, including bail and pleamaking, defending in committal proceedings, drink driving, drugs and shoplifting, street offences such as swearing, prostitution and trespass. Also covers family law, accidents and compensation including workers compensation, tenancy, dividing fences, retirement villages, consumer law, social security, disability law, credit and debt, wills and estates, administrative law, immigration law, employment, discrimination and human rights, veteran's affairs and intellectual property. Location number LIAC/N349.944/6A.
Author: Rees, Neil
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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