Victorian Courts are issuing Orders Against The Elderly.

Everybody thinks that Courts only issue Intervention Orders against Violent and Threatening People, In Victoria this is not True, It doesn't matter what age you are or what the Situation is, You can Have an Intervention order issued against you, Here are Some examples.

The elderly Woman's Daughter had issued an Intervention order against Her Mother. I was in Courtroom 8 as the woman shuffled into the Court On Her Walker. The Woman was seeking a variation to Her Daughter's Intervention order because her daughter worked in a store that had branches at 2 Large Shopping Complexes in Melbourne's East and a smaller Store.

Your Honour the Woman said, I am Having trouble shopping and need the Court To Clarify which Shopping Centres I can Use so I Don't Breech My daughters  Intervention Order. I have to be able to Shop Somewhere the Woman Pleaded.

The Magistrate agreed that the Matter needed to be clarified and Granted the woman Leave Of The Court To apply to Vary the Intervention Order. The case would need to come back before the Court at a Later Date. These Types of Orders are Not unusual in Victorian Magistrate's Courts.

    In another case an Elderly Woman in a Retirement Village issued an Interim Intervention Order against another Elderly Woman From The Retirement Village. The elderly applicant Told the Magistrate she wanted the Defendant stopped From going past her unit 4 Times a day to Only Twice a day. The Defendant responded by saying that she was only going past to Visit other People in the Village.

The Magistrate asked The Elderly applicant's carer about the Layout of The Retirement Village and was told that there were Concrete Paths 20 Metres either Side of The Woman's Unit.

The Magistrate then issued an Intervention Order for 12 months that the Defendant was not Permitted to go within 20 Metres of The Applicant's Unit and would have to use The paths either side of the Unit.

I am Not kidding, These are Real Intervention Orders issued in Victorian Magistrate's Court's. I was Outside Courtroom 8 where a Woman Told me that she was 63 Year's old and had never been in a Court in Her Life But Her Son Had Gone to the Registrar's Counter and had an Interim Order Issued against her, she was there to Contest the Order. I have seen another Woman Crying in Court pleading with The Magistrate to let her at Least be able to Ring Her Son.

These Women were not Violent And aggressive or Dangerous Women on Drugs, just average people you would see on the train or the street everyday.