(2018) 4/2 Visn. Nac. akad. prokur. Ukr. 20–31
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Title of the article	Restraining Order as Special Measure of Combating Domestic Violence
Author(s)	YULIIA TURLOVA PhD in Law, chief research officer, department of scientific and methodological support of prosecutor’s activity outside the criminal justice sphere, Scientific and Research Institute, National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, turlova@ukr.net
Short title of the journal (ISSN)	Visn. Nac. akad. prokur. Ukr.
Year	2018
Issue	4/2
Pages	[20–31]
Language	Ukrainian
Abstract	The article is devoted to a restraining order as one of the special measures to combat domestic violence, the procedure and problems of its issuing and prolonging by the court under the amended Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to study the legislation of Ukraine due to the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence” of December 7, 2017, No. 2229-VIII, and relevant amendments to the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine, in connection with which Section IV “Separate proceedings” of this Code is supplemented with Chapter 13 “Consideration by the court of cases on issuing and prolonging of a restraining order”. In accordance with the above-mentioned legislative acts, the offender accused of domestic violence is subject to a number of special measures, one of which is a restraining order, to combat this domestic violence and to protect its victims. During the time, this acts are in force, the court practice of examining cases on issuing and prolonging of a restraining order has been developed. Consequently, there is a need for a thorough study of the legislative innovations, problematic issues that arise in the process of implementation of these legislative acts, in particular, in the case of the consideration by the courts of cases on issuing and prolonging of a restraining order in relation to the offender. Analysis of Arts. 1, 26 of the Law of Ukraine No. 2229-VIII and the norms of the civil procedure legislation, in particular Arts. 81, 89, 3501–3508, as well as of judicial practice indicate that the court decision on issuance of restraining orders is actually the measure to influence the offender, if it is used in case of actual committing domestic violence, and this measure is used exclusively for the benefit of a victim. On the basis of the analysis of legislative acts and judicial practice, it was concluded that today at the legislative level sufficient regulatory conditions have been formed for the court, as the body entrusted with the implementation of measures in the field of prevention and counteraction to domestic violence, to apply a restraining order as a special measure to combat domestic violence. It is also necessary to prove to the court that the offender committed domestic violence against the applicant in order to apply a restraining order as a special measure of combating domestic violence.
Keywords	restraining order; offender; court; domestic violence; combating; special measure.
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