Past Events

Award-winning author, Jess Hill, and family violence specialist, Abbey Newman, explore the complexities of coercive control and discuss how it may manifest in your Hearing room.

In partnership with the Magistrates' Court of Victoria, we are delivering online multidisciplinary training to support the establishment of the new Specialist Family Violence Courts at Frankston and Heidelberg.

Are you able to recognise coercive control in your courtroom? Do you understand counter-intuitive behaviour? These are some questions covered by family violence experts to help you better understand the dynamics in matters before you.

In partnership with the Magistrates' Court of Victoria, we are delivering online multidisciplinary training to support the establishment of the new Specialist Family Violence Courts at Frankston and Heidelberg.

Register to participate in our online multidisciplinary training, that aims to support the transition to the new Frankston Specialist Family Violence Court. 

Register to participate in our online multidisciplinary training, that aims to support the transition to the new Heidelberg Specialist Family Violence Court. This training will be delivered in partnership with the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria.

Coronavirus and the online environment present unique challenges for Magistrates hearing family violence matters. Join your colleagues for a discussion, facilitated by Magistrate Pauline Spencer, that will explore emerging practice issues and strategies to address them.

What do phones, GPS systems, watches, fitness apps, eTags and loyalty cards have in common?  Join us for in-depth discussion about the challenge that technology-facilitated abuse poses to our current ways of working.

These workshops provide a forum for Family Violence Lead Magistrates to discuss family violence reforms and practice issues.

These workshops provide a forum for Family Violence Lead Magistrates to discuss family violence reforms and practice issues.

Aboriginal women are the fastest growing prison population. Join us live via webinar for an in-depth discussion dissecting the drivers and responses to this growth in incarceration of Aboriginal women. 

These workshops provide a forum for Family Violence Lead Magistrates to discuss family violence reforms and practice issues.

This is the final instalment of the three-day training program for the multi-disciplinary team at Moorabbin’s Specialist Family Violence Court.

This is Day 2 of the three-day multi-disciplinary training for the Moorabbin Specialist Family Violence Court.

We are delighted to be delivering the first of a three-part training for the multi-disciplinary team at Moorabbin's new Specialist Family Violence Court. 

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.

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.

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.

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 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.