From a family court in Barcelona, the substitute judge Isabel Giménez has issued revolutionary rulings with a gender perspective, which have had an impact on improving the lives of women, boys and girls in situations of sexist abuse.
This newspaper has dedicated numerous articles to its innovative sentences, finely woven with irreproachable legal reasoning and crossed by the gender perspective that is required by law but which is difficult to impose in Spanish courts.
He Ministry of Equality has noticed Judge Giménez’s contribution to the fight against gender violence and has awarded her the Menina Prize in the category Feminist justiceon the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, next November 25.
Belonging to the Association of Women Judges of Spain (AMJE), Isabel Gimenez has imposed in its sentences an explanation to children in a language understandable for their age about the decision it makes in relation to a contentious divorce or about the visitation regime of one of the parents; judicial decisions that affect these minors.
According to Isabel Giménez herself, Publicin an interview last May, boys and girls have the right to understand the sentences that affect them, so that they know what has been decided, based on what they have verbalized or the examinations that have been carried out on them. . “For me it is important to convey to them that we have listened to them, that we have taken into account their opinions, that they have been very brave. It is about trying to repair re-victimization, at least from the perspective of the courts.”
Letters to abused childhood
So far, the judge has used the letter method in four cases involving boys and girls. In all of them there is a history of violence, fear and separation from their mothers.
For example, in one of the letters, the judge tells a girl that she will not have to see her father again, whom the girl rejects because he has hurt her and her mother; In another, Isabel Giménez tells another girl that she is going to hug her mother again after five years of seeing her via video call.
At this time, Judge Isabel Giménez has been transferred to a commercial court of Barcelona. He has been in an interim situation for 20 years, with changes in courts and precarious working conditions in relation to career judges. But also in the commercial field, the gender perspective must be applied, as the judge reminds this newspaper.
His letters to boys and girls have crossed borders and the Council of Europe, In its HELP program (Human Rights Education Program for Legal Professionals, in its acronym in English), it includes them as a reference for the training of judges, as this newspaper has learned.
False Parental Alienation Syndrome
Furthermore, this judge from Barcelona has issued revolutionary rulings regarding the false Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), through the tools contained in various laws. Thus, it has warned several men, separated fathers, that fines could be imposed on them for “bad faith and abuse of rights” if they persist in using the SAP against their ex-wives, in disputes for custody of the children. . The childhood law prohibits the invocation of SAP because it is a non-existent syndrome that always harms mothers and children.
The award-winning judge is characterized by respecting the right of boys and girls not to want to interact with one of their parents. Giménez listens to the minors and the professionals who evaluate them psychologically. In this way, on some occasions he has ordered the suspension of visits to a father, within the framework of a custody process, for causing the child post-traumatic stress.
The award ceremony, a wrought iron sculpture in the shape of Menina, will take place on November 25 at the Pavón Theater in Madrid.
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