How to know (housing) neighbour's name?

So, we are dealing with extremely noisy and rowdy housing commission neighbors. With the recent most incident, the police advised us to get a Personal Violence Order. When I went to the Civil Registry at the local court (Darwin, NT), I was informed they will not take in an application without the defendant's name.
I called the police and the housing commission and both of the pretty much told me 'privacy, we can't tell you the tenant's name'.

We are going around in circles -> police says get DVO -> court says wont accept application without name -> police and housing both aren't providing the person's name. I emailed the contact person at the Right to information division and I was again denied stating

How does one go about getting a neighbour's name for the purposes of a PVO?

Cheers

 

Oh gawd....even if you get their names and slap them with the PVO....er what is the outcome of that?

Can you move?

 

What is the personal violence order supposed to achieve?

 

Put the order on the Minister for Housing.

 

Check their mail.

 

No, we can't move. Per the police, it is a bigger priority and very easy to attend to a breach of a PVO. Also the courts take a while to issue an order, so the sooner I get started the better.

 

hopefully, it will stop them from:

• contacting us
• using violence against us
• causing damage to our property, including injury or death to animals
• threatening to use violence against us

 

This definitely crossed my mind. Someone told me its a felony. But when I googled, it looks like it may be an offence only if the mail is opened ?

 

can't the police get the order for you?

 

There is a process using the Court. The court registrar may be able to access identity information from Police. Speak to them at the court ?

Personal violence order

Good example of a case for seeking legal advice

 

Surely if things have progressed down this path, the police should be able to assist with the process...?

Cheers,
Inertia.

 

Call police and log a complaint about whats happening.

 

Nope. All they can give in this situation is advice. When I spoke to them, they said they can do much more in cases of domestic violence.

 

I did. The registrar said it was up to me to work this out via either of the departments and there was nothing they could do. I am going to seeking legal advice before which I want to make sure I have turned every stone.

 

They have asked me to get a PVO - other than that they want us to keep calling them whenever there is an issue. But nothing more.

 

Sometimes next door mail ends up in our letter box ,I just put it back in their mail box..

Or you could be at a higher level and end up fighting for years ..
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Have they been doing any of these things? The OP just says they are noisy.

 

Ask the postie?
Ask the other neighbours?
Introduce yourself and ask their name?
Private detective?
Go through the garbage?

 

So, after going through all of this, I thought I will post an update in case some one is in such a situation. The NT's Personal Violence Restraining Order act has a clause (section 21) which basically says if the applicant believes a third party knows the defendant's name then the applicant can request the court to order the third party(power, water, electoral roll, etc) to provide the name if the applicant has already made reasonable efforts in finding out the persons name and hasn't been able to. I am almost certain every state/territories' act will have such a clause. It was a challenge to get the registry to accept the application as the front counter staff/supervisor/supervisor's supervisor were all unaware of this. I had to carry with me the act with the highlighted portion for them to read, analyse and consult with other court staff to even take my application in.

At least in the NT there are community legal help services available for no fee and I highly recommend them.