Successful strategies for improving access to justice for women who kill their abusers

13-14 February 2023

Convenors: Associate Professor Danielle Tyson, Professor Bronwyn Naylor OAM and Professor Heather Douglas AM FASSA.

The workshop drew together practitioners (practicing lawyers, family violence experts, psychologists and psychiatrists) and researchers from a range of disciplines including criminology, law, socio-legal studies, gender studies, Māori health and Indigenous studies and education, to share insights on legal strategy and other instances of ‘good’ lawyering that have helped to understand women’s experiences of domestic and family violence and their use of fatal force against their abusive partners. In bringing together Australian and international legal practitioners, experts and community advocates working at the coalface with victims, the participants at this international workshop collectively identified ways of producing more just outcomes for these women, particularly First Nations women.