It shouldn’t be difficult should it?  You just have to avoid acting like a tool.

In 2017 an intervention order was served on a man in Portland, Australia.  He was forbidden from physically or verbally intimidating a particular other person.  On 13 April 2018 he was at that person’s home when an argument saw him grab their chair and then verbally abuse them.  The offender was charged with breaching an intervention order.  The report leaves unclear what sort of intervention order was imposed.  However, the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic.), §123(2) provides that breaching a family violence intervention order is punishable by up to two years imprisonment.

The defendant was presented for trial in Portland Magistrates Court where he pleaded guilty.  He submitted that a series of quarrels combined with a failure to take medication had lead to the actions breaching the order.  Toose M imposed a fine of $1,200.00.

Police v Kennett (2018) Portland Observer & Guardian, 2 May 2018, p.5