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Annual Report released for Administrative Law and Human Rights Section

Administrative Law and Human Rights Section 03 Dec 2019

The Law Institute of Victoria has released its annual report for the Administrative Law and Human Rights Section...

Human Rights

LIV makes recommendations on LGBT conversion practices ban

Administrative Law and Human Rights Section and LIVOut Working Group 02 Dec 2019

The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) has made recommendations on a legislative option to ban conversion practices in Victoria in a submission to the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety...

Human Rights LGBTIQ

The LIV comments on the revised Code of Conduct for Registered Migration Agents

Administrative Law and Human Rights Section 19 Nov 2019

The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) has in a memo to the Law Council of Australia (LCA) provided comments on the revised Code of Conduct for Registered Migration Agents...

Human Rights Immigration Migration Law

Tanya Day’s family awarded Tim McCoy prize

Karin Derkley 12 Nov 2019

The family of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day, who died after she was arrested for being drunk in a public place, has won the Tim McCoy Award for their efforts to change Victoria’s public drunkenness laws and create community health alternatives to incarceration...

Discrimination Human Rights

Law Council of Australia: Human rights and national security

Arthur Moses SC 01 Nov 2019

Disclosure of classified information by media should only be criminalised if it can be proven to have posed real harm to national security...

Human Rights

Companies have role to play in eliminating modern slavery

Karin Derkley 17 Oct 2019

Companies and their advisors need to remember that corporate and legal obligations under the Modern Slavery Act are aimed at preventing the exploitation of vulnerable people...

Corporate Social Responsibility Human Rights

LIV calls for national human rights charter over Religious Discrimination Bill

Administrative Law and Human Rights Section 26 Sep 2019

In a memo to the Law Council of Australia, the Law Institute of Victoria has called for a national charter of human rights to protect religious freedoms within a human rights framework...

Discrimination Human Rights

The LIV calls for reform to Australia's aged care facilities

Elder Law Section 06 Sep 2019

The LIV has contributed to the LCA's submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety...

Aged Persons Human Rights

Memo to LCA on Centrelink Automated Debt Recovery (Robo-debt)

Administrative Law and Human Rights Section 05 Sep 2019

The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) has submitted a memo to the Law Council of Australia (LCA) addressing its concerns about the Online Compliance Intervention (OCI) automated debt rocovery system operated by Centrelink...

ATO Human Rights

The Law Institute of Victoria supports the Racial and Religious Tolerance Bill 2019

Administrative Law and Human Rights Section 04 Sep 2019

The LIV has stated its support for the Racial and Religious Tolerance Amendment Bill 2019 and commends the Reason Party in amending the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 (Vic) to eliminate vilification...

Human Rights LGBTIQ

LIV calls for reform of contempt of court laws

Administrative Law and Human Rights Section and Criminal Law Section 08 Jul 2019

The Law Institute of Victoria has called for wide ranging reform of the laws around contempt of court, to protect fair trials while supporting free speech...

Courts Criminal Procedure Human Rights

Advocacy: Submissions

Law Institute Journal 01 Jul 2019

Submissions...

Advocacy Freedom of Information Health Human Rights

Charter of Human Rights demands access

Tal Shmerling 01 Jun 2019

The Victorian Supreme Court has confirmed that courts must consider the distinct cultural rights of Aboriginal people under the Victorian Charter when making decisions in relation to an Aboriginal person’s request to be heard in the Koori Court.

Human Rights

First submission to Mental Health Royal Commission

Criminal Law Section, Health Law Committee and Disability Law Committee 19 May 2019

The LIV's first submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System has identified 13 key areas of reform the Commission should focus on...

Health Human Rights

Group effort saves lives

Karin Derkley 01 May 2019

More than 100 lawyers have been prepared to drop everything over the past year to help bring desperately ill asylum seekers to Australia for treatment...

Human Rights Immigration

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