0 a written instruction made by a court that forbids (= does not allow) a particular action until a judge has made a decision about the matter:
She obtained a restraining order forbidding her partner from seeing their two children.
Clause 5 gives criminal courts the power, when sentencing a person for an offence under clause 2 or 4, to make a restraining order.
Clause 5(3) enables a court to make a restraining order for a specified period or until further notice.
Again, isolating counselling among the wide range of matters which might feature in a restraining order is unhelpful.
In the civil courts, an application for an injunction, the equivalent of a restraining order, would be served on the defendant before the hearing.
The courts can impose on anyone convicted of either of these two offences a restraining order preventing further harassment or fear of violence.
Secondly, the restraining order can only be broken by an act which is itself a breach of the general criminal law of the land.
Further proceedings are envisaged for a breach of the restraining order—not the making of a restraining order—at a subsequent time.
She raised the point about restraint; she said, in answer to my points that in the case of the commissioners it would take the form of a restraining order.
