Recent Reports and Publications

	Recent Reports and Publications & Case Watch Archive
	Recent Reports and Publications Case Watch Archive

2003	July '03 - Negotiating Child Residence and Contact Arrangements Against a Background of Domestic Violence, Miranda Kaye, Julie Stubbs, and Julia Tolmie
2002	July/-02 WEL Submission on Paid Maternity Leave June 2002 the Australian Women's Constitutional Network 2nd Australian Women's Constitutional Convention. You can read the papers now on the Trust the Women - web site
2001	August Lost Innocents: Righting the Record - Report on Child Migration - Senate Community Affairs References Committee August Out of the Maze - Report of the Family Law Pathways Advisory Group 9/4 Young Australians and Domestic Violence, Trends and Issues in Criminal Justice, Institute of Criminology 21/2 launch of The Family Law Reform Act 1995 The first three years, Final Report by Helen Rhoades, Reg Graycar, and Margaret Harrison 19/1/01, AG releases Family Law Council's report on Litigants in Person Also see the AG's press release. 18/1/01, Justice Research Centre releases Legal Services in Family Law. Also see the AG's press release.
2000	Papers from the International Society for Family Law Conference 2000 held in Brisbane are available on the Griffith Univiserty Law School web site 9/00 The Family Law Reform Act 1995 Can changing legislation change legal culture, legal practice and community expectations? Final Report, September 2000, by Helen Rhoades, Reg Graycar, and Margaret Harrison. A copy of the executive summary of this report is now available on the Family Court web site the full report is soon to be released. 27/4/00 Litigants in Person in the Family Court, John Dewar, Barry Smith and Cate Banks [Family Court of Australia web site] Also see the Attorney-General's press release in relation to the report. 6/4/00 The Effectiveness of Legal Protection in the Prevention of Domestic Violence in the Lives of Young Australian Women [Australian Institute of Criminology] 17/2 Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System, ALRC released 12/12 Launch of An Unacceptable Risk: A Report on Child Contact Arrangements where there is Violence in the Family, Abuse Free Contact Group, Women's Legal Service, Brisbane

1999	Dec. '99 Women's Rights Action Network Australia - Retreating From The Full Realization Of Economic, Social And Cultural Rights In Australia: A Gendered Analysis Shadow Report to Australia’s Third Periodic Report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, covering the period 1990-1997 14/12/99 Launch of the Women's Human Rights Tribunal Report 22/11/99 Report of the Senate Community Affairs References Committee - Inquiry into proposals to change the welfare system 6/12/99 Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Report on Provisions of the Family Law Amendment Bill 1999 25 Aug. '99: Pregnant & Productive, HREOC report on the National Pregnanay & Work Inquiry - Its not a privilege to work while pregnant. Model Criminal Code: Sexual Offences Against the Person, July '99 Trial by Legal Aid, Crossroads Family & Domestic Violence Unit, May '99 The Family Law Reform Act 1995: Can Changing Legistation Change Legal Culture, Legal Practice & Community Expectations? Interim Report, April 1999 Legal Aid Forum: Towards 2010 - [papers available] Harsh Realities: 9/3/99 launched by Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission - case studies of discrimination against women in the workplace. Read the Attorney-General's media release Sexual Slavery - Model Criminal Code report released 4 Jan '99 Kerney & Associates, Review of the operation of Division 11 of the Family Law Reform Act to resolve inconsistencies between State family violence orders and contact orders made under family law. Against the Odds: How Women Survive Domestic Violence [Keys Young - OSW web]

1988	Women & the Law: Judicial Attitudes as the Impact on Women Anne C. Thacker Model Criminal Code - Non Fatal Offences Against the Person, Sept. '98 - comments can be made
	Case Watch Archive
	Videoconferencing 20/4/01 Full Court of the Family Court - videoconferencing to present case. The case is: K and S and V [2001] FamCA 243 Effectiveness of VC and consideration of other cases about the use of VC in legal proceedings. Cross vesting Action to alleviate effect of the High Court's Cross Vesting Decision [Attorney-General's press release 17/6/99] take this link to the decisions. Impact of the decision: Family Court of Australia web site Coper 7 IUD Litigation by 300 women in Australia - Radio National Law Report [2/3/99] Battered woman - self defence High Court decision - Osl& v The Queen [1998] HCA 75 (10 December 1998) - appeal dismissed - take this link to the transcript of the Radio Nation Law Report story on the decision [15 Dec. '98]. * Also see the Fatal Offences Against the Person - Discussion Paper. Women Who Kill in Self Defence Campaign Submission Sexually transmitted debt High Court Protects against Sexually Transmitted Debt: Radio National Law Report [18/8/98]. Read the decision: Garcia v National Australia Bank Limited [1998] HCA 48 (6 August 1998) Stolen Generation May '01- Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner have appealed to the Full Court of the Federal Court against the decision last August (see archive) refusing their claim. [ABC News link: 15/5/01] Cubillo v Commonwealth (includes summary dated 11 August 2000) [2000] FCA 1084 (11 August 2000) [on Austlii]. This is the 'Stolen Generation's' judgement. Court Decision Demonstrates Need for Reparations Scheme - HREOC press release [11 August 2000]

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