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Disability, Elder and Health Law Annual Report

Disability, Elder and Health Law Section 08 Nov 2021

The 2021 Annual Report for the LIV Disability, Elder and Health Law (DEHL) Section has been released....

LIV makes recommendations for the new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act

LIV Disability, Elder, and Health Law (DEHL) Section 03 Aug 2021

The LIV has provided wide-ranging recommendations to the Victorian Government for the drafting of the new proposed Mental Health and Wellbeing Act...

Disabled Persons Health Human Rights Legislation Wellbeing

Opinion: Take affirmative action

Rebecca Johnston-Ryan 01 Jul 2021

Inclusion of lawyers with a disability in the profession requires action from all of us.

Disabled Persons Diversity Opinions

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Victorian law reform: How juries can be more inclusive

VLRC 01 Jul 2021

The VLRC is considering how juries have become more inclusive in the United States, England and Wales, and New Zealand.

Disabled Persons Practice & Procedure

LIV makes a formal submission to the Royal Commission into Disability

Legal Policy 15 Mar 2021

The LIV has called for the Royal Commission into Disability to fully incorporate the International Convention on the Rights of People with Disability into domestic law.

Disabled Persons

Supporting people through “mystifying” court system

Karin Derkley 03 Jun 2020

Lawyers and magistrates need to be made disability-aware to give cognitively disabled people a more positive interaction with the justice system, a magistrate has said....

Access to Justice Courts Disabled Persons

Guardianship: A new dawn

Natalie Talia 01 Mar 2020

A new act establishes a framework for guardianship and administration that encourages agency and participation by people with disabilities in their own affairs...

Disabled Persons Guardianship

Annual Report released for Disability, Elder and Health Law Sections

Elder Law Section 02 Dec 2019

The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) has released the annual report for the DEHL section, encompassing Disability, Elder and Health Law...

Disabled Persons Health

Inquiry must examine link between mental health and criminal justice

Karin Derkley 13 Feb 2019

The Royal Commission into Mental Health needs to look at how mental health issues can all too easily topple people into the criminal justice system or precipitate other legal problems, Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) has said in its submission to a consultation on the terms of reference for the royal commission...

Disabled Persons Discrimination