• CPD Points: 1.5 [PS] [SL] [EW]
  • Price: $88.00
  • Area: Child Protection; Family Law; Wellbeing and Lifestyle
  • Delivered: March 2020
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Description

In addition to outlining the law in the area of family violence, this session focuses on some of the behaviours that are experienced when working in this space. This includes insights from social workers on some of the behaviours and observations seen in their client work. Specifically, what coercion and control can look like and how it might present and introduce the concept of systems abuse and how the system can be used to further perpetuate abuse. The ALRC Report, released in April 2019, proposed in Recommendation 52 that legal practitioners undertaking family law work annually complete a unit of CPD relating to family violence. This session goes some way towards meeting this objective.

Kate Mooney SC discusses:

  • Definition of family violence.
  • Discussion of the Family Violence Best Practice Principles, Edition 4 December 2016.
  • Consequences of family violence – drawn from the case law and Kate’s 27 years of experience.
  • What can the court do about family violence.
  • What evidence works best in court.

Jack Dalby considers:

  • Family violence from the inside – beyond ‘violence’; abusive and controlling behaviour; how perpetrators think; system/3rd party abuse and how perpetrators use the legal system to punish their victims.
  • Reflections from outside the system.
  • Working with men who chose to use violence, experience and learnings including what abusive behaviour may look like drawn from his experience.
  • Assessment tools used.
  • Safety concerns when working with victims of abuse and control – things to think about.

Kate Mooney SC, Barrister, Michael Kirby Chambers

About the Presenter:

Ms Kate Mooney SC was admitted to practice in 1996 and signed the Bar Roll in 2010. She was appointed Senior Counsel in 2019. Prior to going to the Bar, Kate worked as a judge’s associate, at various Hobart private law firms and at the Legal Aid Commission of Tasmania. Kate is an accredited mediator and regularly conducts mediations in family law matters. She is an accredited Independent Children’s Lawyer.

Kate is a Member of the Mental Health Tribunal; a member of the Australian Bar Association’s Family Law Subcommittee; and holds memberships to the Law Council’s Family Law Section, the Family Law Practitioners’ Association of Tasmania, the Tasmanian Bar, and Tasmanian Women Lawyers.

Jack Dalby, Counsellor, Jarawyn Therapy

About the Presenter:

Mr Jack Danby has fifteen+ years’ experience as a counsellor and project manager in the community and government sectors. Jack’s main areas of interest are trauma, child abuse, violence, masculinity and gender. His practice is in working with survivors of child abuse and neglect, complex PTSD, and men and women impacted by or using family violence. He has worked closely with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and established the Royal Commission Support Service to support survivors of institutional abuse in Canberra in 2013. He specialises in working with long-term, complex PTSD, borderline personality disorder and dissociative disorders. He has particular expertise in helping men develop tools to manage anger and strong feelings and providing behaviour change training for men who have used violence or controlling behaviours in relationships. Jack helped develop and wrote the manual for the Relationships Australia Tasmania men’s behaviour change program.

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