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Rights of WomenTraining courses 2012For more info contact the training officer. We provide training for organisations on essential issues concerning women's rights.
These practical and interactive courses are essential for anyone who supports or provides services to women affected by violence and abuse. Our trainers are specialist women solicitors or barristers who are experts in these areas of law. Our courses are accredited by the Law Society and Bar Council. When you attend our training, in addition to receiving comprehensive course materials you will also be given free copies of relevant Rights of Women books to enable you to use the knowledge you have gained in the training in your work. Breaking the cycle: using civil and criminal remedies to protect women from violence All too often women receive only partial information as to their legal options when experiencing domestic violence. This popular course has been compiled so that you gain a full knowledge of legal remedies possible for victims of domestic violence and learn how to tailor your advice on available options for each individual woman you are supporting. You will be provided with a thorough knowledge of non-molestation and occupation orders, including enforcement options and how to apply. An evaluation of remedies available from the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 will also be given. You will then be guided through the available criminal law remedies and will receive specific opportunities to increase your knowledge of protections available to victims in criminal law proceedings. The course has been updated to include a legal overview of the newly piloted Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs), crucial information for anyone supporting victims of domestic violence. Each participant will receive a copy of the Domestic Violence Injunction handbook and a copy of From Report to Court, a widely acclaimed legal guide to the criminal justice system for women who have experienced sexual violence.
Just married? The law on marriage, divorce and forced marriage This "myth-busting" one day course will enable you to support women from the UK and abroad to understand marriage, divorce and forced marriage. The morning session will enable you to identify a legal marriage, and understand the law on foreign and religious marriages, as well as explaining the legal consequences of marriage. The course will then clarify the ways in which a marriage can be ended (divorce, judicial separation and annulment) and finally give an overview of the law on financial relief further to the breakdown of a marriage. The afternoon session will focus on forced marriage and aims to enhance your knowledge of the law and enable you to support women at risk of, or who have experienced, forced marriage. The session will explain the legal remedies that exist to protect victims of forced marriage and will give you an understanding of the procedure for getting a forced marriage protection order. Participants will receive a copy of the Government's Multi-Agency Practice Guidelines: Handling cases of Forced Marriage and a range of Rights Of Women legal guides including, A Guide to Divorce, a Guide to Marriage and a Guide to Financial Arrangements on Marriage Breakdown.
Delivered in partnership with the POPPY Project, this unique one-day course will give you the knowledge and skills necessary to enable you to identify and support women trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The course will introduce you to the relevant criminal and immigration laws and processes that this particularly vulnerable group of women may have to navigate, provide you with an overview of the criminal justice process in trafficking cases and enable you to support a woman seeking to secure safety and protection in the UK (for example, through the asylum process and/or National Referral Mechanism). Each participant will receive a full resource pack and copies of Trafficking, sexual exploitation and the law, From Report to Court: a handbook for adult survivors of sexual violence and Rights of Women’s latest research report, Silenced voices speak: strategies for protecting migrant women from violence and abuse.
Asylum-seeking women are some of the most marginalised and vulnerable women in our society, caught up in an incomprehensible system that will determine whether or not they can secure protection in the UK or be returned to their country of origin. This unique and innovative one-day course, which we are delivering in partnership with the Asylum Support Appeals Project, is a practical and insightful introduction to the asylum process and asylum support law. The course focuses specifically on the needs of asylum-seeking women who are, or have experienced, gender-based violence and provides an introduction to the asylum process and the financial support options available to women who are seeking, or have been refused, asylum. Each participant will receive a full resource pack and copies of Trafficking, sexual exploitation and the law and Rights of Women’s latest research report, Silenced voices speak: strategies for protecting migrant women from violence and abuse.
FREE COURSE - Seeking refuge? Protecting women from persecution - in partnership with Asylum Aid Asylum-seeking women are some of the most marginalised and vulnerable women in our society, caught up in an incomprehensible system that will determine whether or not they can secure protection in the UK or be returned to their country of origin. This unique and innovative one-day course, which we are delivering in partnership with Asylum Aid, is a practical and insightful introduction to the asylum process and how decisions are made and challenged. The course focuses specifically on the needs of asylum-seeking women who are, or have experienced, gender-based violence and will enable you to support a woman seeking asylum to secure safety and protection in the UK. Each participant will receive a full resource pack and copies of Trafficking, sexual exploitation and the law and Rights of Women’s latest research report, Silenced voices speak: strategies for protecting migrant women from violence and abuse.
FREE COURSE - No recourse? EEA national? Supporting migrant women experiencing domestic violence Meeting the needs of women from outside of the UK who are experiencing domestic violence is incredibly challenging, you have to be up-to-date in one of the most frequently changing areas of law, understand the duties of local authorities and the rights that the woman herself has to pursue justice in the criminal, family or immigration systems. This one-day course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to confidently support a woman who has ‘no recourse to public funds’ or who is the national of the European Economic Area country with remaining in the UK and accessing financial support.
Getting the basics: an introduction to family law With the government’s proposal to limit access to legal aid and to remove public funding for divorce and private law children matters, this one day course, which provides the basics of family law, is vital in order to give you the knowledge to help women to understand their rights and to assist them to access these through the law. The morning session aims to clarify the law on divorce and financial relief including the legal process, the range of orders the court can make and the legal principals applied when deciding how property and money is to be divided. As well as explaining the legal position for women who are not married or in a civil partnership, further to relationship breakdown, including their rights to property. The afternoon session will look at financial provision for children, followed by an overview of the Children Act 1989 and the law on child contact and residence. Finally, the course will examine how women experiencing domestic violence can get protection through the law including non-molestation, occupation orders, forced marriage protection orders and restraining orders.
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