Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Meeting Survivors’ Needs: Gender-Based Violence Against Inuit Women and the Criminal Justice System
Pauktuutit conducted a research project with Inuit women and justice-related service providers to study the criminal justice system’s response to gender-based violence in Inuvialuit, Nunavut, and Nunavik to increase awareness and understanding of the needs, challenges, and service gaps many Inuit women face.
Best Practices for Writing Gladue Reports and Understanding Gladue Principles
This guide provides a set of guidelines to support Gladue report writers in preparing reports to submit at bail and sentencing hearings for Indigenous people.
Gladue and You
This plain language booklet describes Gladue principles that judges must apply at bail or sentencing when an Indigenous person is charged with a crime. It explains: Gladue factors; colonialism and systemic discrimination; how Gladue principles are applied in court; the difference between Gladue submissions and Gladue reports.
Are We Ready to Change? A Lawyer’s Guide to Keeping Women and Children Safe in BC’s Family Law System
This report, with a focus on the voices of women survivors, provide an opportunity for lawyers and the legal system in BC to improve its response to family violence. It also provides some practical considerations for lawyers around screening and safety planning, and highlights areas of the Family Law Act that would benefit from thoughtful analysis, law reform, and/or strategic litigation.
Why Can’t Everyone Just Get Along: How BC’s Family Law System Puts Survivors In Danger
Family violence can trap its victims, disproportionately women, in a web of social, legal, political and interpersonal realities which can be challenging for the legal system to address.
Who Can Stay in the Family Home on Reserve
This easy-to-understand, illustrated brochure gives basic information about the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act and explains your rights to the family home on reserve.
Webinar: Relocation of Children & Decision-Making for Kids
The revisions to Canada’s Divorce Act offer stronger protections for women with children who are fleeing an abusive relationship. However, challenges remain. In this webinar, Pamela Cross will explore two of these issues: relocation of children and decision-making for kids.
Family Violence & Family Law Brief: Coercive Control and Family Law
This issue of Family Violence & Family Law Briefs provides a primer on coercive control for legal, social service, and healthcare professionals who are supporting survivors of family violence in the family court system.