Victoria court to decide whether police were negligent in family violence case

Woman alleges police failed to protect her and her children from decades of abuse by the children’s biological father

A Victorian court will decide whether the police were negligent in failing to protect a woman and her three children from nearly a decade of abuse, in what the woman’s lawyers say will be a landmark test case.

On Monday, Victoria’s supreme court rejected a bid from the State of Victoria to have the lawsuit dismissed.

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