A court order issued to protect an individual who has a reasonable fear of violence or harrassment from a specified person.
after he threatened her with a knife, an apprehended violence order was granted against him
Example sentencesExamples
- Another worker has taken out an Apprehended Violence Order against his employer after he had received reports of threats made against him by his boss.
- The court can't guarantee you that the husband won't break the apprehended violence order.
- A heated verbal argument led to him going to court to get an apprehended violence order against the official.
- These workers support women when they are applying for an Apprehended Violence Order.
- He still stays away due to an Apprehended Violence Order.
- We want legal services providing assistance with apprehended violence orders to women who fear domestic violence.
- The magistrate could get her an interim Apprehended Violence Order to make sure her husband stayed away.
- There is no system of apprehended violence orders available in the Ukraine.
- She sought an apprehended violence order against her former boyfriend.
- The youth had an apprehended violence order (AVO) issued against him, and was also wanted on a separate assault charge.