The Granada collegiate María José Adán-Lopez Hidalgo takes over from Montserrat Linares as president of the Specialized Group on Gender Violence of the Granada Bar Association after closing the electoral process called by the Governing Board on February 7 to renew the Board Directive of the group, concurring to the same a single candidacy.
Together with the new president, a member in the previous stage, the management team has Pilar Rondón García, as vice president; Purificación Alles Aguilera, as secretary; Lorenzo David Ruiz Fernández, who held the position of secretary and clerk; Ana Belén Novo Pérez, as librarian; and Juan Rivero Ibáñez, María de las Nieves Carrillo Hoces, Isabel Portilla Seiquer and Juan Fernando Hernández Herrera, as 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th members, respectively.
Training will continue to be one of the priority objects of the new Board of Directors of the Gender Violence Group, one of the most numerous, with more than 660 members of the board. “Above all, we want to transmit the desire to work and fight to ensure that every day we are all more prepared, either from the training that we intend to pass on to our colleagues, or from the collaboration with other institutions that, like us, fight for eradicate gender violence, not only in the area of the couple or ex-partner, advancing in compliance with the Istanbul Convention”, says Adán-López.
new days
Specifically, the team leader is a student of new training sessions that address the most basic legal concepts for a university student working in this legal area, as well as more specialized subjects, which allow a professional team to read every legislative and doctrinal corner. to later be able to move it, I knew daily exercise. "It is essential to understand that the victims of the violence of generosity require support against us and the confidence of knowing that they have a committed and trained lawyer to obtain the greatest judicial response from the courts and tribunals," explained the Chairwoman.
Likewise, proliferation will continue to strengthen collaboration both with those public and private institutions dedicated to the fight against gender violence, as well as with judicial and prosecutorial bodies, because, according to Adán-López, "without a doubt, through dialogue and the intent to achieve a stronger or united fight against this scourge that in recent times, far from diminishing, has alarmingly warned”.
And for this, the new Board of Directors of the Gender Violence Group also wants to count on all the colleagues. "We want them to tell us what can be improved and the difficulties they encounter in the day-to-day struggle or to send us suggestions regarding training," the lawyer invited. In this case, the group has been able to use the existing page of the Gender Violence Group and, in addition, has opted to strengthen its presence on social networks to reach the maximum number of lawyers possible.
Cases and analysis
On the other hand, at the statutory level, the Gender Violence Group will be in charge of the compilation, study and analysis of legal instruments, legal regulations and jurisprudence on the matter; organization of training activities; the coordination of actions through the elaboration, dissemination and effective application of protocols that facilitate professional work; the analysis of the problem at a professional level in this legal field and the consequent search for solutions and channeling of complaints; the study and valorization of data and information coming from the specific shift for its best; the participation, orientation and diffusion of activities of violence of generosity of interest; holding regular meetings with other bodies involved, to exchange information and coordinate actions; the knowledge of the members of legislative and jurisprudential news and the promotion within the Library of the College of an editorial fund on the subject; the relationship with other groups of the College or other institutions related to gender violence; the promotion of activities to prevent and eradicate this social scourge; and collaboration with the bodies of the Granada Bar Association.
