Rob Hulls speaks to Judge Lisa Tremewan, one of the founders of New Zealand's Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court about her career and how she came to be a strong advocate of therapeutic justice.

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An important panel discussion to explore the challenges of responding to the use of family violence by adolescents, opened and moderated by Heather Nancarrow, CEO of ANROWS and Rob Hulls, former Victorian Attorney General and Director of the Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University.

Panel members:

Michael Hill, former Chief Magistrate of Tasmania,

Selina Spowart, disability advocate with lived experience of child to parent violence

Kiki Mussared, Family Advocacy and Support Service, Legal Aid Commission

Craig Mackie, legal practitioner and child advocate, Dobson Mitchell & Allport

Leah Adams, Tasmania Police

For more than two decades, New York’s Center for Court Innovation has been a world leader in innovative justice solutions, providing a road map for a more humane and effective justice system. Here, the CIJ’s Director Rob Hulls speaks to the CCI’s deputy director of Treatment Court Program Annie Schachar, and the senior advisor for problem-solving justice Brett Taylor, about their work and the center’s approach to changing the justice system for the better. You might also hear some interesting parallels with the work of the CIJ!

The relationship between gendered violence and women’s criminalisation is well recognised, with male violence not only a direct funnel into Victoria’s male prisons, but its female prisons as well. In a criminal justice system designed to react to the extremities of this violence, however, women experience gendered justice as well. With diminishing sentencing options and a blunter justice response putting more women behind bars, the question then becomes would we need a women’s prison at all if we responded more appropriately to male violence?

This podcast is of a panel discussion celebrating International Woman’s Day the CIJ co-hosted with the Law and Advocacy Centre for Women. Panel included:

Elena Campbell, Facilitator

Ann Collins, Magistrate

Jill Prior, Principal Legal Officer, LACW

Dorothy, Advocate with lived experience

Cheryl, Advocate with lived experience

**Please accept our apologies, the audio quality of this recording is distorted in parts, but we felt the content of the panel made it worth making public.

A copy of the full report can found here: http://ow.ly/UMfx30h2GIe

Speakers from justice agencies; specialist family violence agencies; academia and wider community-based programs share their first hand experiences of working with young people who use violence again family members; the intersection with youth offending; and the need for innovative, holistic and community based responses.

Speech and official launch of new resource developed by Victoria Police and the Australian Institute for Family Studies - Challenging misconceptions about sexual offending: creating an evidence-based resource for police and legal practitioners, followed by panel discussion.

MC: Rob Hulls, Director, Centre for Innovative Justice

Keynote: Justice Jennifer Coate, Commissioner, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Panel members:

Dean McWhirter, Assistant Commissioner, Family Violence Command, Victoria Police

Louise Serrao, Sexual Offences & Child Abuse Team – was a (SOCIT) Investigator, now works for Taskforce SALUS

Di Elderton, a victim of sexual offences

John Champion, Director, Office of Public Prosecutions

Her Honour Judge Meryl Sexton, County Court Judge in charge of sex offences list

Panel discussion following the launch of an RMIT JD student authored report commissioned by the Australian Human Rights Commission. Speakers include Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, Rob Hulls, David Mann (Refugee Legal), Hugh de Kretser (Human Rights Law Centre), student authors Frank Aloe, Veronica Snip, Helen Metzger, Luke Fowler and Brigette Rose.

Justice: Past, Present, Future. A panel discussion featuring Barrister Brian Bourke and Magistrate Pauline Spencer who share their first hand experience of the Australian justice system, past and present and their vision for the future. MC'd by Rob Hulls.

Panel features -

- Special Minister for State the Hon. Gavin Jennings

- Judge Amanda Chambers

- Lily Anderson (USA Step Program)

- Jo Howard (Kildonan UnitingCare)

- Elizabeth Grawe (parent victim)

- Jamie Marloo Thomas (Wayapa Wuurrk Aboriginal Wellness Foundation)