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‘Vulnerability and the Law’ - UNSW
27 September 2018 University of New South Wales Law Journal Launch of Thematic Issue on ‘Vulnerability and the Law’ Vol 41(3) 2018 * Check against delivery Acknowledgments I pay my respects to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and to their elders past and present—as well as to emerging leaders...
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Hotung Fellowship Public Lecture 2016
Check against deliveryHuman rights across the Tasman: a widening gulfI am honoured to have been invited to give this lecture at the Law School of the University of Canterbury, funded by the generosity of the Sir Eric Hotung Fellowship. While I had settled the subject matter of this lecture, I...
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Access to Justice
Check against deliveryAccess to justiceYour Honours, distinguished guests:I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Wurrindjeri people of the Kulin nation and pay my respects to their elders, especially to those elders present today.May also thank our host the Hon Justice Mordy Bromberg...
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President reports on KA, KB, KC and KD v Commonwealth (Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Social Services, Attorney-General’s Department) [2014] AusHRC 80
Four Aboriginal men with intellectual and cognitive disabilities were held for years in a maximum security prison in the Northern Territory despite being found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity. If two of these men had been found guilty they would have received a sentence of...
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Delegate of the President reports on Charlie v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Border Protection) [2014] AusHRC 90
A delegate of the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission has found that the failure of the former Ministers for Immigration to exercise their powers to make a residence determination in respect of Mr Daniel Charlie during the period from November 2009 to September 2011 when he was...
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President reports on PJ v AMP Financial Planning Pty Limited [2014] AusHRC 89
The President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, has found that AMP Financial Planning Pty Limited (AMPFP) discriminated against Mr PJ on the basis of his criminal record. Mr PJ had applied to AMPFP to be appointed as an authorised representative under its financial...
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President reports on AH v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Border Protection) [2014] AusHRC 88
The President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, has found that the Commonwealth’s failure to detain Mr AH in the least restrictive manner possible is inconsistent with the prohibition on arbitrary detention in article 9(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and...
