The Weekly Law Reports
[1982] 2 WLR 914
[COURT OF APPEAL]
HORNER
v.
HORNER
1982 Feb. 18
Ormrod and Dunn L.JJ. and Sir Sebag Shaw
Injunction
— Domestic violence
— County court jurisdiction
— Justices' order restraining husband from violence
— Harassment of wife
— Refusal by county court to grant injunction restraining husband from “molesting” wife
— Whether jurisdiction to grant injunction in wider terms than order of justices
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Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 (c. 50), s. 1
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Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22)
s. 16 (2) (a)