THIS week's coronial inquest into the murder of Jessica Kupsch will investigate whether service providers should tell police if they believe a family violence victim has been contacted by their attacker.
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Ms Kupsch, a 29-year-old Launceston mother of four, was bashed to death by her ex-partner, Mathew Tunks, at Launceston's Penny Royal Motel in August 2012.
Tunks was sentenced in December 2012 to 23 years' jail for Ms Kupsch's murder.
The pair had been in an "on-off" relationship for six years and a court-mandated family violence order forbidding Tunks from contacting Ms Kupsch was in place at the time.
A coronial inquest into Ms Kupsch's death will take place on Thursday and Friday before Coroner Simon Cooper at the Launceston Magistrates Court.
At the top of the coroner's agenda will be determining whether Anglicare and other service provider employees were under any obligation to tell police if they saw Tunks breaching his family violence order.
The inquest will also investigate whether service provider employees should be required to report potential breaches of family violence orders if they aren't already obliged to.
It is understood an Anglicare employee reported to police that Tunks had contacted Ms Kupsch a week before her murder.
Tasmania Police's handling of that report will be also scrutinised by the coroner.
Anglicare Tasmania chief executive Chris Jones said Ms Kupsch's Anglicare case worker was no longer with the organisation.
He said an Anglicare employee would give evidence at the inquest.
"We'll be fully co-operating," Dr Jones said. "We've got someone who has retrieved the case notes."
Ms Kupsch's mother, Donna Kupsch, said her daughter's death could have been avoided.
"I'm hoping [change will come as a result of the inquest], but I'm not confident," she said
Mrs Kupsch said the two-day inquest would be hard to stomach.
"I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place," she said. "I've got several 'hats' that I wear in public and I'll put on the hat that I have to wear that day and just breathe."