Domestic violence is a kind of bad phenomenon in society, which has attracted more and more attention in recent years. This article analyzes the problems related to judicial remedy in domestic violence. It is divided into the following three parts. The first part is the concept of domestic violence and approaches to judicial remedy. Firstly, it introduces the concept of domestic violence and expounds the legislation of domestic violence at abroad and the definition of domestic violence in China. Secondly, the way to judicial remedy is analyzed from the aspects of criminal and civil legal systems. The problems existing in the practice of judicial remedy in domestic violence are discussed in the second part. Analysis on five aspects has been made including the lack of preventive measures, the possibility that the victims of abuse have no way to sue, the difficulty of adducing evidence, the unobvious effect of law enforcement, and the lack of standardization for collation. The third part is the improvement to judicial remedy in domestic violence. And four aspects have been analyzed so as to improve judicial remedies, respectively the enactment of Anti-Domestic Violence Law, the improvement of police intervention mechanism, the establishment of family courts and the building of a comprehensive social system against domestic violence.
Key words: domestic violence, judicial remedy