Coercive Control - understanding, identifying and responding to coercive control.
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Room 3 - North Room
| Friday, December 2, 2022 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Overview
Julie Sarkozi, Women's Legal Service Qld
Speaker
Ms Julie Sarkozi
Practice Director Law Reform And Education
Women's Legal Service Qld
Coercive Control - understanding, identifying and responding to coercive control.
Abstract
Understanding and responding to coercive control
This webinar will outline the learnings from WLSQ's research and evaluation project in partnership with NQ WLS, funded by the legal assistance services program, including working with people who might experience coercive control in domestic and family violence matters, how to identify it and options for responding. It will also look at women being misidentified as aggressors to assist CLCs to better understand and respond to matters involving coercive control. It will cover:
- Learnings from Queensland women with lived experience of coercive control, including those who had been misidentified as primary aggressors, about what legal centres could do to elicit full disclosure of their circumstances and support them in safely arguing their case when they self-represent;
- Learning from the literature and from community legal centres in other jurisdictions what the impact, demand and practice has been in relation to ‘coercive control’ and what guidance they would offer to systems considering the paths
- ‘Hear Her Voice’ report from the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce (Nov 2021) was released which recommends, amongst many other things, for the criminalisation of ‘coercive control’.
This webinar will outline the learnings from WLSQ's research and evaluation project in partnership with NQ WLS, funded by the legal assistance services program, including working with people who might experience coercive control in domestic and family violence matters, how to identify it and options for responding. It will also look at women being misidentified as aggressors to assist CLCs to better understand and respond to matters involving coercive control. It will cover:
- Learnings from Queensland women with lived experience of coercive control, including those who had been misidentified as primary aggressors, about what legal centres could do to elicit full disclosure of their circumstances and support them in safely arguing their case when they self-represent;
- Learning from the literature and from community legal centres in other jurisdictions what the impact, demand and practice has been in relation to ‘coercive control’ and what guidance they would offer to systems considering the paths
- ‘Hear Her Voice’ report from the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce (Nov 2021) was released which recommends, amongst many other things, for the criminalisation of ‘coercive control’.
Biography
Julie Sarkozi is the Practice Director for Law Reform and Education at the Women's Legal Service Qld (WLSQ). Julie has been a lawyer for 18 years, working at the WLSQ for the past 10. During this time she has worked as a Domestic and Family Violence Duty Lawyer and provided advice to vulnerable women in Qld re: domestic violence and family law matters, developed community education resources and provided training in the domestic and intimate partner violence space. More recently, Julie has been the lawyer for victim survivors of sexual offences, protecting their counselling records from being accessed and other wise used in legal proceedings. Julie is active within the national and state campaign's in relation to changing the legal and justice systems response to sexual violence for women and girls - in particular the criminalization of coercive control, affirmative consent models, and legislating other victim survivor rights.
