Certainly. I'm happy to do that. Thank you for the question.
I'm going to build on what Cee Strauss already said rather than repeat her excellent comments.
It's critical that this education be developed outside of the judicial world, both for the reasons you mentioned, but also to ensure that real expertise is brought to the question of what the content should be. That was one thing that was so great about the legal aid training we talked about a few minutes ago.
That training has to look at all of the things that Cee talked about. It has to look at the gendered nature of intimate partner violence, especially coercive control and lethal intimate partner violence or it's not an accurate picture. We cannot have judges continuing to say, “Well, you know, it's a bit of this, a bit of that. Sometimes it's him; sometimes it's her. He said; she said. We don't know how to interpret this.”
There is clear, clear evidence that women are primarily the victims of coercive control and intimate partner homicide. That has to be part of the training, in addition to the many points that have already been made, in particular by Cee.