Past Events

Building on the learnings from the first two days of the specialist program, this final session has a practical focus and will embed a shared understanding of roles and responsibilities in the multi-disciplinary team.

Explore the social context of family violence and develop skills to identify and respond to family violence in the court or tribunal room.

Focusing on lived experience, communication techniques and the limits of procedural fairness, this skills-based program supports enhanced engagement in the hearing room.

Join Acting State Coroner Caitlin English in conversation with two prominent Australian authors, Dr Clare Wright and Tyson Yunkaporta, at our end of year Law and Literature event.

A unique offering for Magistrates sitting in the Specialist Family Violence Courts, this comprehensive program will supported you to develop collaborative leadership skills to engage with the specialist multi-disciplinary family violence team.

Engaging in practical exercises to create a shared understanding of roles and responsibilities, the multidisciplinary team will develop the skills required to provide a specialised, collaborative and problem-solving response to family violence.

How can we work better together? This conference offers access to a wide-range of experts working with young people in and around the Children's Court. With a focus on behavioural change techniques, we will consider how we strengthen our support for young people and their communities. 

Offering an opportunity to further develop a culturally appropriate framework, this twilight will focus on strategies to promote the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People appearing before our courts.

How to write like a judicial officer - and a story teller. Our judgment writing program assists judicial officers to become more efficient and effective in judgment writing.

Led by a cross-jurisdictional steering committee, this full-day practical skills-based program focuses on lived experience, verbal and non-verbal techniques for engaging with diverse litigants and the limits of procedural fairness.

Co-facilitated by the Hon. Murray Kellam AO QC and leading ethicist Dr Attracta Lagan, this workshop focuses on personal and organisational integrity and applied ethics.

Participants will be supported to build and strengthen best practice multi-disciplinary partnerships and refine the skills required for a specialist, collaborative problem-solving approach to family violence.

Focused on enhancing the effectiveness of the multi-disciplinary team, participants will hear directly from Drug Court participants and develop strategies for identifying and responding to diverse needs.

Associate Professor Anne Smith, Medical Director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service, will address key myths and misconceptions and provide an updates on the latest approaches to injury investigation and interpretation

Touching on loneliness, aged care, harm minimisation and the diverse needs of Aboriginal and LGBTI communities, this conference will support Coroners further develop their understanding of a 'preventable death'.

This twilight will provide judicial officers with an insight into Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

This twilight will canvass the power of language in challenging stereotypes, promoting accountability and enhancing visibility. 

Walkley award winning investigative journalist Jess Hill returns to the Judicial College to launch her most recent work: See What You Made Me Do – Power, Control and Domestic Abuse.

Learn to recognise and respond to a colleague who may be struggling with the demands of their role. This interactive, solutions-focused program will weave together existing research into judicial wellbeing, including interactive skills-development.  

Our first Law and Literature Twilight for 2019 presents author Bruce Pascoe talking about his award-winning book Dark Emu, Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?

The Judicial College of Victoria in partnership with the Australian Association of Women Judges invites you to a free screening of Erika Cohn’s acclaimed documentary THE JUDGE. 

It can take great skill and understanding to manage trauma in the form of overwhelm, reticence, anger or disruptive behaviour in court. This one-day course will help effectively manage trauma in the court with greater ease and equanimity. 

Expert judicial officers take you through best practice approaches for the Ground Rules Hearing process.

This three-day conference will focus on issues relevant to judges including assessing memory, acquired brain injuries, and how an ageing population presents challenges to the courts. 

Immerse yourself in the country and culture of the Djab Wurrung, Jardwardjarli, Wotjobaluk and Gunditjmara people. On this journey, visit sites of significance, walk in the footsteps of Ancestors, and hear about the rich history of the beautiful and serene Gariwerd (Grampians National Park).