Family violence cases in which police charge both partners rather than a single aggressor are on the rise.

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Cross-intimate partner violence more than tripled from a low base of 0.7 per cent of family violence legal proceedings in 2010-11 to 2.5 per cent in the 12 months to February 2023.

The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) study labelled it a "small, but growing" cohort, with more partners taking out apprehended violence orders against each other.

In more than three-quarters of cross-intimate partner violence cases, both th

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