Father to continue battle against protection order

AN ESTRANGED father of five has pledged to go to the Supreme Court after losing his High Court challenge to the constitutionality of protection orders in family disputes.

The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, argues sections of the Domestic Violence Act allowing the making of such orders are an attack on the family and therefore a breach of the constitution in which the family unit is afforded special protection.

He is seeking to quash a protection order made against him by the district court following the breakdown of his relationship with his wife, who wanted to end the home-schooling arrangement they had for their older children and send the two youngest to local schools instead.