Legal barriers for people with disabilities
26.09.2013
Disability enews | Issue 2 | Save the Date!
Issue 2 | 26 September 2013. View original format. What we’ve been up to Since our last e-news the team have been busy with research and consultations. We have met with a range of stakeholders in Sydney and Melbourne, and have spoken with others across Australia by telephone. In October and November the team travel to …
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Easy English
Easy English is an accessible format that uses simple, everyday language and illustrations. The ALRC has developed some Easy English documents related to our work and this Inquiry. Download Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws IP 44 – Easy English Download Law Reform Process – Easy English (PDF) Download Making a Submission – …
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Disability enews | Issue 1 | Welcome to the Inquiry
Issue 1 | 24 July 2013. View original format.Welcome to the InquiryWelcome to the first e-newsletter for our Inquiry into whether Commonwealth laws and legal frameworks deny or diminish the equal recognition of people with disability as persons before the law and their ability to exercise legal capacity. We are excited to be working on such …
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Terms of Reference
Review of equal recognition before the law and legal capacity for people with disability I, Mark Dreyfus QC MP, Attorney-General of Australia, having regard to: the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to which Australia is a party and which sets out: rights for people with disability to recognition before the …
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ALRC Review of equal recognition before the law and legal capacity for people with disability announced
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) today received Terms of Reference from the Federal Attorney-General, the Hon Mark Dreyfus QC MP, for an Inquiry into Legal Barriers for People with Disabilities. ALRC President, Professor Rosalind Croucher will lead the Inquiry that will examine laws and legal frameworks within the Commonwealth jurisdiction that deny or diminish …
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NGO Forum on Human Rights
Rosalind Croucher, President Australia Law Reform Commission, Reducing Legal Barriers for People with Disabilities, 19 June 2013 Old Parliament House, Canberra Acknowledgment To begin, let me thank the Attorney-General’s Department for organising such an important meeting. And, especially as it such an important place in our nation’s history may I acknowledge the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, who …
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Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws
This inquiry considered whether Commonwealth laws and legal frameworks create barriers to people with disability exercising their rights and legal capacity.
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