Violence Against Women and Girls and Sentencing

Refreshments will be served from 5.00pm

Our speakers for the event will be:

Dr Felicity Gerry KC – International Criminal silk and Professor of Legal Practice, "Mandatory sentencing v restorative justice?"

Professor Vanessa Bettinson - Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University, “New sentencing guidelines needed for women who commit crimes driven by coercive and controlling abuse in an intimate or family relationship.”

Dr Emma Sleath- Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Leicester, “Victim-survivors’ experiences of the criminal justice process: Reflecting on the journey and achieving a sense of justice through sentencing.”

Chaired by Orla Slattery, Lecturer Nottingham Law School