Almost 64,000 family law applications were made in the District Courts last year, of which 25,563 related to domestic violence. Photograph: Alvaro Medina Jurado/Getty Images
More than eight out of 10 applicants for domestic violence protection orders are granted and the success rate for barring order applications stands at about one in three, a legal conference has heard.
Domestic violence and childcare accounted for more than half of family law applications in the District Courts over the past 25 years, the Law Society’s Child and Family law conference was told.
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