In How Many More Women? Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida examine the laws around the world that silence women, and explore the changes we need to make to ensure that women's freedoms are no longer threatened by the legal system that is supposed to protect them. Paid casual and visitor parking is offered via the CellOPark App and ‘pay by plate meters’. For more information head here. The Sir John Clancy Auditorium is easily accessible via public transport. Call the Transport Infoline on 131 500 or visit transportnsw.info.

Crucial reading for any person wanting to fight against all forms of gendered abuse.’ JESS PHILLIPS, MP Mysoginist mythology has inaccurately characterized the reality of false rape allegations (colour me surprised). In the UK only 0.23% of rape reports lead to a false arrest and only 0.07% of rape reports lead to a man being falsely charged with rape. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days.

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Robinson and Yoshida lead a discussion of how to avoid the law silencing you – you must censor yourself, and refer to your lived experiences as ‘alleged’ to avoid defamation. Rich, privileged and powerful men have teams of lawyers at their disposal to suppress allegations and prevent newspaper stories from running. Individual women, frontline services, advocacy groups and journalists find themselves fighting against censorship. The weaponising of the law to silence survivors from speaking about their abuse, and anyone who might report on it, has been described as the 'perverse twist' of MeToo. In this powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems, two human rights lawyers break open the big judgments, developments and trends that have and continue to silence and disadvantage women These words of Marilyn Frye from her book The Politics of Reality instantly came to mind and lingered as I read How Many More Women by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida. At large, the book serves as a clear demonstration of how easily individuals can overlook systemic issues when they encounter them within a single case, and highlights the alarming tendency for people to repeatedly fall for the same overused, unoriginal textbook manipulative tactics when they continue to form their opinions solely based on circumstantial facts, spontaneous acquisition of knowledge, and unquestioned internalised biases; an approach that isolates the case from its critical systemic context, which also plays a pivotal role in perpetuating these patterns. That, along with the absence of essential knowledge base about the relevant social, legal and medical factors at play, especially when it comes to topics around which society is knee-deep in myths and misconceptions, like Coercive Control, Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault—the core subject matters of the authors’ work—prevent individuals from grasping the full magnitude of the issue or developing the right perspective needed to recognise these cases as part of a broader pattern, leaving their perception vulnerable to being manipulated, and themselves to being complicit in facilitating the weaponisation of our collective ignorance of trauma and abuse dynamics to impose further harm upon victims.

We are in a crucial moment: women are breaking through the cultural reticence around gender-based violence. But just as survivors have begun to feel empowered to speak out, a new form of systematic silencing has made itself more evident: rich and powerful men are using teams of lawyers to suppress allegations and prevent newspaper stories from running. Individual women, advocacy groups and journalists find themselves fighting against censorship. He then sued her for defamation,” says Robinson. “Because his new partner and some of her friends and family had seen the post. And he won, even though she had that police evidence.” Those brave enough to speak out have faced legal threats from those they accuse in courts that protect the powerful and the patriarchy. What happens when the law that is meant to protect us is, instead, used to silence?

Robinson and Yoshida first met while both working as junior barristers at Doughty Street Chambers in London and both united over a case that felt deeply unjust to them. The case, which also happens to be their book’s opener, took place in the United Kingdom and involved a woman who’d shown police the red marks her ex-husband left on her throat when he violently grabbed her. Later on, the woman had written to the man’s new partner on Facebook in an attempt to warn the new partner of his history of violence, using the words “He tried to strangle me.” The Sir John Clancy Auditorium is located at UNSW Sydney's Kensington campus, ( highlighted red on this map). The closest accessible drop off point to the Sir John Clancy Auditorium is at Gate 9, High Street. And this is not an isolated or country-specific trend but something that’s being seen all over the world. Witty, gritty, insightful and true, this book is essential reading for all women. Robinson and Yoshida lay down the law, on law, in an accessible way, giving us the ammunition we need, not just to protect ourselves, but to go out there and win.'

Fast forward, then he sues her in the United States for an op-ed in which she doesn’t name him. She describes herself as a survivor and a person who became a public figure as associated with domestic violence, which is a fact.”This event is presented by the UNSW Centre for Ideas, UNSW Law & Justice and Sydney Writers' Festival, and supported by Allen & Unwin . This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and has spread across countries, industries and social class. This movement has uncovered the global scale of gender discrimination, sexual abuse and exploitation which women and girls face. As the years have passed, the movement has grown - with peaks of activity coinciding around the latest revelation of sexual harassment or abuse in the halls of power and in different industries - a domino effect in society. From Hollywood and #MeToo in 2017, to Iran and #IranMeToo in 2020, to the Women's March 4 Justice in Australia in 2021, women have spoken out about their experiences, sparking mass protests for change. Another thing that’s revealed in court cases such as the US trial between Depp and Heard is the way the law is currently applied and interpreted in the best interest of men, while restricting womens’ rights to freedom of expression. How many more women: have to be raped or abused before we act? need to accuse him before we believe her? will be failed by the criminal justice system? need to say something before we do something? will be sued for defamation for speaking out? will be contracted to silence? Since their initial outrage, they’ve identified a trend of legal cases and civil litigation cases being brought against women, journalists, frontline services organisations, and friends and family speaking out against gender-based violence.

In How Many More Women?Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida examine the laws around the world that silence women, and explore the changes we need to make to ensure that women's freedoms are no longer threatened by the legal system that is supposed to protect them.As the Me Too movement continues and more women are speaking up, how is the law keeping up with this new empowerment? One high profile example of this is a case that Robinson herself was involved in from the beginning– the defamation case that Johnny Depp took against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, and the Sun newspaper in London. We suggest a number of legal changes in the book. First, we need to ensure that the courts understand, protect and uphold women´s rights to free speech and this can be done through recognising speech on gender-based violence as public interest speech. We also need to ensure that women can afford to speak. Otherwise, women who are sued will continue to face bankruptcy – what is the value of free speech if you can’t afford to defend it? We also need to ensure that judges hearing media cases understand and have training on gender-based violence and the myths associated with sexual and gendered violence. We see those myths creeping into how media cases are argued when they are prohibited in the criminal justice system. There are many more changes you can read about in the book. Simply a must- read. Did you know only 14% of sexual assult victim/survivors report the assult to police? Or that only 1-2% of reported rapes lead to a conviction? Did you know that a women who experiences gender-based violence, who later speaks out about their experience, even when they DONT name their abuser, can be sued by their abuser, thus finding themselves the one being persecuted. Whether the #MeToo movement resonated with you, or (and especially if) you believed Depp vs. Heard trial was just a "mutually toxic" relationship, this book is for you. We were both so outraged by that. We decided to work together to try to intervene in the case, but the Supreme Court didn’t hear us,” says Robinson.