Date: Tuesday 4 November 2025
Time: 1pm - 2.30pm
Cost: Free of Charge
CPD Hours: 1.5 Group Study
The Adult Restorative Justice Strategy for Northern Ireland provides for a new approach to adult offending, through the provision of restorative justice interventions as a means of addressing and resolving the aftermath of an offence.
This Autumn, the Justice Minister will launch the formal accreditation process for organisations who will be delivering Restorative Justice (RJ) on behalf of the formal criminal justice system. When accredited, organisations will be able to facilitate referrals from the Public Prosecution Service for those who consent and are considered suitable for diversion.
This seminar is designed to provide you with the knowledge you need to advise and support your client should they be offered a restorative justice intervention.
The objectives are:
To increase your knowledge of what restorative justice is and is not.
To highlight the pre-conditions for a restorative justice intervention to take place.
To provide an overview of a restorative justice process.
To identify your role within restorative justice interventions, if invited.
This seminar will include presentation and group discussion to enhance learning.
www.justice-ni.gov.uk/publications/adult-restorative-justice-strategy-ni
The session will be chaired by Eoghan McKenna, Chair of Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee and there will be an opening address from Presiding District Judge Keown.
This presentation will be delivered by Martina Jordan and Veronica Holland, Department of Justice.
Martina Jordan is the Interim Protocol Lead for the Adult RJ Strategy. With over 20 years’ experience in restorative justice as a practitioner, trainer and consultant. Martina has developed practice standards and robust accreditation criteria to ensure that victims and perpetrators who consent to this process will work with competent, experienced and highly skilled facilitators.
Veronica Holland is the Assistant Director of the Reducing Offending Division and has responsibility for expansion of adult Restorative Justice. Veronica has previously led on the introduction of the domestic abuse offence, a domestic and sexual abuse advocacy support service, Registered Intermediaries Scheme and introduction of Victim and Witness Charters.
