Injunction Orders

An injunction lawyer helps you apply for court orders to protect yourself and your family from harassment, intimidation, or domestic abuse, including non molestation orders and occupation orders. Acting urgently where safety is a concern, we will listen to your situation with care, explain your options clearly, and move quickly to put the right protection in place, supporting you through what is often a frightening and uncertain time.

To apply, you will need to provide a statement setting out the behaviour you want protection from, supported by an injunction lawyer who can guide you through the court process. In urgent situations, applications can be made without notifying the other person beforehand, with a hearing held shortly after. A domestic abuse solicitor can talk you through exactly what evidence is needed for your particular circumstances.

A non molestation order is a court order that protects family members, including children or people in a domestic relationship, from violence or other forms of molestation by a person they are associated with. It can prohibit threats, intimidation, harassment, or contact, depending on what is needed to keep you safe. Breaching the order is a criminal offence, giving it real legal weight beyond a civil agreement.

A non molestation order typically lasts between six and twelve months, although the court can grant a longer period depending on the circumstances. If the risk to your safety continues, an extension can be applied for before the order expires. Your injunction lawyer will advise you on timing and help ensure there is no gap in protection if a renewal becomes necessary.

A non molestation order protects you from violence, threats, or harassment from an associated person, while occupation orders regulate who can live in, or enter, the family home. Occupation orders can require someone to leave the property entirely or restrict them to certain areas. The two are often applied for together where there is an ongoing risk to your safety within a shared home.

Occupation orders are typically needed when you and the other party still live together and your safety depends on changing who has the right to remain in the home. This might apply where leaving isn’t safe or practical, or where children’s stability depends on staying in the family home. An injunction lawyer can advise which order, or combination of orders, best suits your situation.

Yes. An emergency injunction solicitor can act quickly to apply for urgent protection, even with very little notice, when there is an immediate risk to your safety or that of your children. Courts can deal with genuinely urgent applications the same day in serious cases, often granting a short term order with a return hearing to follow shortly after.

Yes. A domestic abuse solicitor can help regardless of whether the abuse is physical, emotional, financial, or coercive in nature, since the law recognises all of these as forms of domestic abuse. Courts can grant protective orders based on patterns of controlling or threatening behaviour, not just physical harm, so it is worth seeking advice even if you are unsure whether what you have experienced qualifies.