MEN’S PERSONAL STORIES
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The Chamber Magistrate said to me, ‘You're supposed to be the stronger one - to be able to take strong hits. If you go ahead with this, they'll laugh you out of court’. Even if you've got a blood nose and bruises, if you're a man, they say you have to have more proof to get an AVO.