gender-based violence scourge
THE Advice Desk for the Abused, which was founded by Professor Anshu Padayachee and Judge Navi Pillay in 1986, has dealt with a large number of cases of domestic abuse in its approximately four decades of existence.
One of the instruments that is used to assist complainants of domestic violence is a protection order. This is a legal instrument, which emanates from the Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998 and is intended to protect the complainant against any form of abuse that includes physical, sexual, emotional, psychological or economic harassment within a domestic relationship.
Protection Orders
As the protection order was not legally available in
