This project deals with the practicability of protecting domestic violence survivors from anticipated future violence by altering the operation of a scheme originally designed to protect persons considered to be under threat from paramilitaries. It explores the practicability of redesigning the existing protective scheme so that a similar scheme for protecting domestic violence survivors can be produced. A t a theoretical level the focus in on the development of rights-based arguments to the development and delivery of social service policy with a view to restructuring ort reordering legal orthodoxies.