Review of Family Violence Legislation – Have Your Say : Rural Women NZ

The Ministry of Justice is consulting on the way our legal system deals with family violence and seeks your views on a range of ideas.

These ideas include:

Better guidance in law about family violence and the expectations about how the government will respond.
More visibility in law to the population groups affected by family violence.
Creating additional pathways for victims, perpetrators, and the wider family who seek help without having to go to court.
Improving protection orders including how applications are funded
Creation of a new framework of family violence offences.
Supporting improvements to the whole of government response to family violence.

Research indicates rural New Zealand has on average a higher level of reported family violence than urban New Zealand. However, because of the lack of services and support and the isolating nature of rural, more domestic violence goes unreported, therefore your feedback is important.

Rural Women NZ have put a submission forward to the Ministry of Justice,
click here to download the submission.

For any further information please go direct to
Ministry of Justice.