Domestic Violence and Marriage-Like Relationships

Australian Law Reform Commission, Family Violence and Commonwealth Laws – Improving Legal Frameworks: Final report (November 2011) ALRC Report 117 <http://www.alrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/pdfs/publications/whole_alrc_117.pdf> 156.

Perry and Department of Family and Community Services (Perry) [2001] AATA 282 & Watson v Secretary, Department of Family and Community Services [2002] AATA 311.

Perry and Department of Family and Community Services (Perry) [2001] AATA 282.

AAT Matter No 2008/2484. A pseudonym has been used to protect the applicant's identity.

AAT Matter No 2009/3034 & AAT Matter No 2009/3035. A pseudonym has been used to protect the applicant's identity.

AAT Matter No 2009/854. A pseudonym has been used to protect the applicant's identity.

Pseudonyms have been used to protect the applicants' identities.

Ruka v Department of Social Welfare [1997] 1 NZLR 154.

Wiseman Jessica , ‘Determining a Relationship in the Nature of Marriage: The Impact of Ruka on the Department of Work and Income's Conjugal Status Policy’ (2001) 32(4) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 973.

Ruka v Department of Social Welfare [1997] 1 NZLR 154.

Hughes John , ‘Battered Woman's Syndrome and “Interdependence” as Factors in Establishing Conjugal Status in Social Security Law’ [1999] 7 Waikato Law Review <http://www.nzlii.org/nz/journals/WkoLRev/1999/>.

Hughes John , Lone Parents and Social Security (2005) 36(1) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/research/publications/vuwlr/prev-issues/pdf/vol-36-2005/issue-1/hughes.pdf.

Ruka v Department of Social Welfare [1997] 1 NZLR 154.

Department of Social Welfare, Changes to the Definition of a Relationship in the Nature of a Marriage, Information Bulletin 1996/087.

In Hughes' experience this was, and remains, a common misperception among departmental staff. Hughes , above n 12.

Hughes , above n 12, 127–128

Price Steven , ‘Winz Policies Ignore Ruka Judgment’ (15 February 2000) Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand).

Ibid.

Unreported Magistrates Court of the ACT 19 May 1993, Burns M.

Discussed in Patricia Easteal Kate Hughes & Easter Jacki , ‘Defences: Battered women and duress’ (1993) 18 (3) Alternative Law Journal 139–140.

Commercial Bank of Australia v Amadio (1983) 151 CLR 447.

Garcia v National Australia Bank Limited (1994) CLR 395.

Yerkey v Jones (1939) 63 CLR.

Moreno v Moreno [2009] FMCAfam 1009.

Ibid.

Part 2–2 Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).

Section 7 Contracts Review Act 1980 (NSW).

Moreno v Moreno [2009] FMCAfam 1009.

Australian Law Reform Commission, above n 1, para 6.47 at 156.

Ibid paragraph 6.42 at 157.