Psychological impact of legal & forensic work: Managing exposure to vicarious trauma

The Victorian ANZAPPL Committee warmly invites all to our 2017 Annual Lecture.

Speaker

Justice Coate is a Judge of the Family Court of Australia, and was appointed to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 11 January 2013. Prior to this, she held a number of appointments, including Judge of the County Court of Victoria, State Coroner of Victoria, the inaugural President of the Children’s Court of Victoria and Senior Magistrate and Magistrate of the Magistrate’s Court of Victoria.

During her time as President of the Children’s Court of Victoria, Commissioner Coate oversaw the establishment of the Children’s Koori Court. Justice Coate has also worked as a part-time Law Reform Commissioner, a solicitor in private practice, a solicitor for the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria and in policy and research for the Victorian Government.