Managing Sexual Harassment Matters from a Gendered Lens
Format: Livestreamed and In-person (Hobart)
Recorded: With the presenters' consent
Time: 1-2pm, Friday 7 March 2025
This session will share strategies on how to create a trauma-informed, sensitive and safe space for your clients who discuss significant trauma. Using a gendered-lens through your work, means that unlike other sexual harassment matter management, this considers an added layer of complexities and nuanced challenges clients face when talking about experiences of sexual harassment.
- What is a gendered lens
- Integrated practice
- Trauma informed practice
Key takeaways
- An invitation to think differently
- Louth v Diprose - a case study
- Apply a gendered lens in practice
Jodie Lee, Principal Solicitor at the Women's Legal Service Tasmania and is the Sexual Harassment at Work lawyer. Jodie's area of work is highly specialised and she works across several jurisdictions (Fair Work Commission, Australian Human Rights Commission, Equal Opportunity Tasmania, TasCAT, Supreme and Federal Courts of Australia). Aside from her incredibly specialised knowledge of the law and each jurisdiction, she puts her clients and client’s wellbeing at the centre of how she chooses to run her cases. Jodie is at the forefront of improving access to justice through improving the experiences clients get when speaking to lawyers about sexual harassment and empowering clients through their journey.
in-person (at the Society, 28 Murray Street) and livestreamed.
28 Murray Street, Hobart Tas 7000
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1-2pm, Friday 7 March 2025