McCartney v McCartney

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Protection order — Whether requirement of immediate danger — Finding that wife not in immediate danger of further assault — Refusal of justices to make order excluding husband from matrimonial home — Whether requirement that danger must be immediate before making order — Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978, s 16(2)(3)

[1981] Fam 59; [1981] 2 WLR 184