This volume brings together studies that, while focused on the structural challenges of contemporary civil justice, converge in identifying the weaknesses the system still exhibits when confronted with situations of profound vulnerability, particularly those experienced by women and children who have suffered sexual violence. By examining issues of access to justice, procedural design, evidence, appeals, the impact of new technologies, and the specificities of family law and disability, Vulnerabilities of Women and Children Who Are Victims of Sexual Violence shows how procedural, evidentiary, and organisational obstacles can deepen existing inequalities, undermining the effective judicial protection these victims urgently need. Taken together, the contributions offer a critical and comparative reading of the system’s shortcomings and of the reforms needed to ensure that civil justice can respond in a more timely, efficient, and empathetic way to the specificities inherent in these situations of utmost vulnerability.
Publisher Tirant lo Blanch
Editors Margarida Santos & Marlene Matos
Year 2025
Available to buy online.
This volume brings together studies that, while focused on the structural challenges of contemporary civil justice, converge in identifying the weaknesses the system still exhibits when confronted with situations of profound vulnerability, particularly those experienced by women and children who have suffered sexual violence. By examining issues of access to justice, procedural design, evidence, appeals, the impact of new technologies, and the specificities of family law and disability, Vulnerabilities of Women and Children Who Are Victims of Sexual Violence shows how procedural, evidentiary, and organisational obstacles can deepen existing inequalities, undermining the effective judicial protection these victims urgently need. Taken together, the contributions offer a critical and comparative reading of the system’s shortcomings and of the reforms needed to ensure that civil justice can respond in a more timely, efficient, and empathetic way to the specificities inherent in these situations of utmost vulnerability.
Publisher Tirant lo Blanch
Editors Margarida Santos & Marlene Matos
Year 2025
Available to buy online.