Rise Women’s Legal Centre

You Can’t Say That in Court!

Education EN ↓ 30 episodes

A bi-weekly podcast that raises awareness about family violence and the challenges survivors face as they navigate the BC family legal system. The podcast collectively identifies barriers and calls for positive changes to be made for survivors across the province!

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Rise Women’s Legal Centre

Episodes

Episode 5: Family Violence: Why Can't Everyone Just Get Along? 02.05.2025 29:01

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, we are joined by Haley Hrymak - a staff lawyer at Rise. Haley shares some of the findings from Rise’s research project, which was conducted between June 2017 and May 2020 (funded by WAGE ). This research found that despite the well-documented prevalence of family violence directed at women. many legal system professionals still tend to view cases involving fami...

Episode 4: Family Violence: Screening for family violence 18.04.2025 29:50

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, we are joined by Stephanie Hodgson, who is a lawyer on the so-called Vancouver Island and shares an office with Moira the adopted border collie/Aussie shepherd/great Pyrenees Mountain mutt. Stephanie is interested in the intersections of gender/sexuality and the law and currently practices in the areas of family and child protection or family policing law. The...

Episode 3: Family Violence: Listening for family violence 04.04.2025 38:06

Episode 2: Family Violence and Coercive and Controlling Behaviour Continued 21.03.2025 32:41

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: A continuation from the first episode, Vicky and Stephanie talk about myths about family violence and how a coercive and controlling behaviour lens can help to provide an understanding of harmful behavior. Women and gender-diverse individuals are overwhelmingly victims of IPV and this is why we are using gendered language in our podcast. See Rise's report Why can’t everyone ju...

Episode 1: Family Violence and Coercive and Controlling Behaviour 07.03.2025 36:24

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: There is lots of misunderstanding amongst the public about family violence. In this episode we are talking about family violence and what is coercive and controlling behaviour. We are looking at a collection of actions in order to identify a pattern. Women and gender-diverse individuals are overwhelmingly victims of IPV and this is why we are using gendered language in our podc...