Judicial officers ensure the authoritative adjudication of controversies over the application of laws in specific situations, make law and public policy, especially when they exercise their power of judicial review to declare laws, government actions or omissions as unconstitutional, act as administrators for out-of-court settlements, and ensure enforcement of decisions. Judicial officers are barometers of a society’s conscience and must be seen to take restorative steps with impartiality and professionalism to address VAW by establishing and enforcing social and behavioural norms in line with the principles of the rule of law, as embodied in the law applicable and the practice before adjudicating institutions, and educating within and outside the court system. Failure to hold perpetrators accountable makes victims lose confidence in the institution of the judiciary and in the ability of the state to protect them from violence.