Bournemouth Conference seeks social justice on violence against women
Conference seeks social justice to tackle violence against women and girls. Urgent improvements are needed to Special Domestic Abuse Courts if they are to provide the intended protection and support to victims of domestic abuse. That is the finding of a new report by the Soroptimists UK and Jess Rose, a PhD student at BU, based on observations from over 1000 cases in over 30 magistrates courts around the country. The report was one of the subjects discussed at the Violence Against Women and Girls: Social Justice in Action conference, hosted by the Soroptimists and Bournemouth University on 29th June. “This latest study supports previous reports which have found that women are not being supported and the special protection that these courts are supposed to provide is not always there,” said Dr Liz Dominey from the Soroptimists Bournemouth Club. During their observations, the researchers noted that many courts do