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TOPICS (in alphabetical order)

> Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women
> child support
> confidentiality of sexual assault counsellors records
> constitutional equality guarantee
> court support schemes
> domestic violence
> equality before the law
> family law
> female genital mutilation
> feminist legal theory
> gender bias
> law curriculum
> legal aid
> optional protocol to CEDAW
> sex discrimination
> sexually transmitted debt
> test cases, standing etc
> trafficking in women
> violence
> women's human rights
> women in the legal profession
> women law students
> United Nations

Access to legal assistance

ATSIC Supports Indigenous Women's Legal Centres,
press release 10 September '97 Indicators relevant to the legal needs of Indigenous Australians
[see section on women] Attachment 5 to Policy Framework for Targeting
Assistance Provided by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law:
Report No. 69 Part 1, Sepcialist Women's Legal Services for
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Women:
Gender bias A Report on Aboriginal Women and Bias in the Western Australian Justice System
(Current Developments, April 1995),  Catherine J Iorns, E-Law

Compilations of web resources on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues

ATSIC
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Page at Vicnet
Koorie Research Centre, Monash University
[see extensive listing in the 'links' section]
Bills Henderson's Aboriginal Links

Australian governments proposals

DSS - Child Support Scheme - What's New, September '97

Existing legislation & regulations

Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 [on Austlii]
Child Support (Assessment) Regulations [on Austlii]
Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 [on Austlii]
Child Support (Registration and Collection) Regulations [on Austlii]

Other countries

Canadian Child Support Legislation - May '97

Canada - Supreme Court decisions

R v O'Connor [1995] 4 S.C.R. 411
A. (L.L.) v B.(A.) [1995] 4 S.C.R. 536
These decisions are on the University of Montreal's Canadian Supreme Court Web Site

Also see Equality Before the Law (below)
Women and the Constitution: Proposals for a Guarantee of Equality,
Elizabeth Evatt, Women's Constitutional Convention, 30 January 1998
Equality for Women Under the Constitution?,  Jenny Morgan, Regina Graycar,
and Hilary Charlesworth Women's Constitutional Convention, 30 January 1998
Equality Guarantee: Political and Practical Realities, Renee Leon,
Women's Constitutional Convention, 30 January 1998
Guarantees of Equality in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
Some Implications and limitations, Manon Tremblay, Women's Constitutional
Convention, 30 January 1998
The New South Africa: Women and the Making of the Constitution, Zoe Rathus,
Women's Constitutional Convention 30 January 1998

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law,
Report No. 69 Part 1, Chapter 6 Access to Justice: Court Support Schemes

      Criminal justice & legal response
 

Domestic Violence: Civil Justice Response, Report ACT Community Law Reform Committee, (1996)
Domestic Violence: Criminal Justice Response ReportACT Community Law Reform Committee, (1995)
What's Love Got to Do With It?: An Analysis of an Intervention Approach to Domestic Violence by Ruth Busch & Neville Robertson, Waikato Law Review, Vol 1. 1993.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Jan 1994(US) Model Code on Domestic and Family Violence,
Coordinated Community Approaches to Domestic Violence,
Article by Barbara J. Hart, Esq. Legal Director, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Associate Director, Battered Women's Justice Project; Legal Consultant to the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.
From Rhetoric to Reality: Ending Domestic Violence inNova Scotia Law Reform Commision of Nova Scotia,Final Report, Febuary 1995
Domestic Violence and the Courts: Immigrant and VisibleMinority Perceptions, Department of Justice, Canada, June 1995
Family Violence in Rural, Forms and Remote Canada
A Project of The Canadian Farm Women's Network, March 1995

Parent/child contact

Australian Law Reform Commission, Report No 73, For the Sake of the Kids: complex cases and the Family Court (1995) Table of Contents
Issues in Complex Contact Cases
I Didn't Know Just How Far You Could Fight: Contextualising theBristol Inquiry by Ruth Busch & Neville Robertson, University of Waikato Law Review Vol 2 1994
Australian & New Zealand Association of Children's Contact Services

Resource compilations

 Isis Creations Domestic Violence pages (Australia)

Australian resources

ALRC 69 Part I Equality Before the Law: Justice for Women, 1994
ALRC 69 Part II Equality Before the Law: Women's Equality, 1994

  Understanding Equality  

ALRC 69 Part II Equality Before the Law: Women's Equality

Equality Act (proposal)  

ALRC 69 Part II Equality Before the Law: Women's Equality - Proposal

• Impact on government
• Impact on courts
• Minority view on aspects of the Equality Act proposal 

Canadian resources  

Equality Rights Law under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Take this link to the fabulous resources maintained by Deborah McIntosh
[note: presently not available: 10 Oct. '97]

Children

Family Law Reform Bill 1994 (Children's Bill)
Status: Assent 16/12/95 Act No 167 of 1995 now in effect
Family Law (Consequential Amendments) Bill
Status: Assent 12/12/95 Act No 140 of 1995 now in effect
Family Law Act as amended by the 'Children's Bill' [on Austlii]
 

Violence

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law,
Report No. 69 Part 1, Chapter 9 Violence and Family Law

Property

Family Law Reform Bill (No 2) 1995 (Property)
Status: lapsed

Pension division on marriage breakdown
A scheme for division of pensions as family property came into effect in British Columbia in 1995. This link is to the British Columbia Law Reform Commission web site. This area of the site is dedicated to the issues surrounding the division of pensions on marriage breakdown. It provides guidance on the new British Columbia legislation and acts as a clearing house for information on this topic from other Canadian jurisdictions.

Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia, Matrimonial Property in Nova Scotia:Suggestions For a New Family Law Act, Discussion Paper, April 1996
The Discussion Paper proposes a new regime for a the division of matrimonial
property which would apply to matrimonial, defacto and same sex cohabiting
relationships.

Primary Dispute Resolution

The Delivery of Primary Dispute Resolution Services in Family Law,
Attorney-General's Department, August 1997
 

Publicity in Family Law Proceedings

Take this link to the NWJC Submission on Publicity in Family Law
Proceedings [August, '97]

FGM Home Page Links to international resources
Diana: Women's Human Rights resources on FGM
Australian Medical Association Position Statement

Feminist Legal Theory, Special Edition of the Sydney Law Review
Volume 18 Number 4 - September 1996
Feminist Legal Theorising and the Diverse Experiences of Women
by Leah Whiu, University of Waikato Law Review, Vol 2 1994
University of Melbourne: Feminist Legal Theory - brief course description

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law:Women's Equality , Report No 69 PART II, Chapter 2 The gender of the law

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law: Women's
Equality, Part II Discussion: Chapter 8 Legal Education
Department of Employment, Education and Training:Work and Violence Themes: Including Gender Issues in the Core Law Curriculum,
Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan
Gender and Citizenship Materials for Australian Law Schools, Sandra Berns,
Paula Baron &  Marcia Neave
Developing and Teaching an Introduction to Law in Context, by Nan Seuffert,
Stephanie Milroy and Kura Boyd, University of Waikato Law Review, Vol 1 1993

National Women's Justice Coalition legal aid cuts briefing page
Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law, Report No. 69
Part 1, Chapter 4 Access to Legal Aid

Take this link to the NWJC page on the proposed Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law, Report
No. 69 Part 1, Chapter 3 Strengthening the Sex Discrimination Act

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission - functions, legislation,
processes, how to lodge a complaint about discrimination

Same Sex Relationships

Homophobia as an Issue of Sex Discrimination: Lesbian and Gay Equality and the Systemic Effects of Forced Invisibility,
Christopher N Kendall, E-Law Volume 3, Number 3 (September 1996)
Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships: Where to from Here?,
Stevie Clayton E-Law Volume 3, Number 3 (September 1996)
"Which, then, would be the 'husband' and which the 'wife'?": Some Introductory Thoughts on Contesting 'the Family' in Court,
Jenni Millbank, E-Law Volume 3, Number 3 (September 1996)

Pregnancy

The death throes of the sick man: Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (No 2) by Anne Morris [1995] 5 Web JCLI

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law:
Women's Equality, Part II Chapter 13 Sexually Transmitted Debt

Australia

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law: Women's Equality, Part II Chapter 7, Hearing women in courts and tribunals

Australian Law Reform Commission, Beyond the Door Keeper: Standing to Sue for Public Remedies, Report no. 78, 1996

Canada

The Court Challenges Program of Canada
(See particularly - 'program highlights' which sets out some recent cases in which the Women's Legal
Education Action Fund (LEAF) has been involved)

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women--Asia Pacific (Home Page)

See Domestic Violence above.

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law, Report No. 69 Part I, Chapter 8 and following Violence Against Women

Resources:

International Bibliography on Violence Against Women
[US National Institute of Justice]
MINCAVA Higher Education Centre Against Violence and Abuse
[extensive listings, including international resources and conferences]
Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children,
Ontario Canada
Research Centre on Violence Against Women and Family Violence,
University of Manitoba
Research Centre on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations,
Leeds UK

Also see Optional Protocol to CEDAW
Diana: International human rights database - Women's Human Rights Resources
(links to primary resources and to web sites on particular topics)

 

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law: Women's Equality , Report No 69 PART II, Chapter 9 Women in the Legal Profession

Sexual harrasment as professional misconduct

Law Society of Upper Canada Rules of Professional Conduct

Articles

Women lawyers lead in equal pay,
Northern Law News, Auckland District Law Society, Issue 23, 4 July 1997
Gender and equality in the legal profession,
Research project of the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights 1995-1996: Professor Mary Jane Mossman)
Fat birds, girly crime and perspex ceilings: some lawyers are stil more equal than others - by Liz Fisher (1995) 69 ALJ
[on the Law Book Co. site]. Deals with 'Soliciting Equality: Equality and Opportunity in the Solicitor's Profession', report prepared by Young Women Lawyers (Britain)

Elusive Equality: The Experiences of Women in Legal Education,
American Bar Association, February 1996
(US) National Women's Law Student Association

Also see Optional Protocol to CEDAW
Beijing Platform for Action & UN Advancement of Women Info
Australia's commitments in Beijing
Note: the referring page is not listed at the bottom of this site -the address of the referring page is:
http://www.un.org/dpcsd/daw/dawfwcw.htm
International Women's Tribune Centre Global Faxnet
(Beijing Follow up) on WomenNet
Institute for Global Communications: Womensnet

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