Report Launch on Domestic and Sexual Violence and the Three Legal Processes

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

The National Women’s Council will launch the Report on the Intersection of the Criminal Justice, Private Family Law and Public Law Child Care Processes in relation to Domestic and Sexual Violence, commissioned by NWC in conjunction with the Department of Justice.

The research is an important recommendation of the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence and focuses on how acts of domestic or sexual violence can cause the activation of two and sometimes three distinct legal processes (the criminal justice process, the private family law process and the public law child care process) involving the same victim or victims and the same alleged perpetrator; and endeavours to consider how a more victim-centred collaborative approach can be adopted between the various legal processes. The recommendations of the report will inform the implementation of the Strategy particular with regard to the Protection and Prosecution Pillars and the reform of our Family Court System.

Speakers at this event include:

• Simon Harris TD, Minister for Justice
• Orla O’Connor, NWC Director
• Prof. Louise Crowley (chairperson)
• Ellen O’Malley Dunlop
• Nuala Egan
• Noeline Blackwell, CEO, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC)
• Mary-Louise Lynch, Founder of Survivors Informing Services and Institutions (Sisi)
• Stephanie Whyte the Assistant Director of Children’s Services in the South, Barnardos
• Megan Berry, Community Worker on the violence against women programme, Pavee Point

Register

Starts: 3 May 2023 09:00
Ends: 3 May 2023 12:30
Location: The Atrium, 51 Saint Stephen's Green, Dublin, D02 HK52