Past Events

A unique opportunity for the Geelong Children’s Court community to come together to explore ways of better responding to the complexities of young people in the justice system.

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.

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.

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.

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

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