Yes, judges should be up to date for sure. It's so important for judges to be better educated on gender-based violence and sexual violence in particular.
I would say that we need to go further upstream, as upstream as possible. Start with everyone who's studying to be a lawyer. They should have courses on gender-based violence, domestic violence and sexual violence to really understand these dynamics.
What we're seeing is that in courts—family courts, for example—when there's domestic violence happening, these matters are being called “high conflict”, as if the power dynamics did not exist. We keep hearing decisions from judges that show that they don't understand those dynamics or the issues involved in sexual violence. We hear rhetoric that is victim blaming, stigmatizing and revictimizing.
Yes, education for judges, lawyers, police officers and every actor involved in the justice system would be really helpful.