Submissions - Fair Hearing

Universal Periodic Review: Joint NGO Report on Australia (12 July 2010)

Australia is to be reviewed by the UN Human Rights Council through the Universal Periodic Review process in January 2011.
A coalition of 68 NGOs - coordinated by the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, Kingsford Legal Centre and the National Association of Community Legal Centres - has submitted a 5 page Report to the UN Human Rights Council on [...]

ICCPR: NGO Reports for UN Human Rights Committee Review of Australia (March 2009)

The UN Human Rights Committee will review the state of human rights in Australia in March 2009 in New York.
On 16 and 23 March, the Committee will be briefed by a coalition of leading Australian human rights organisations, including the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, the National Association of Community Legal Centres and Amnesty International.  On [...]

Civil Justice: Submission to Inquiry into Vexatious Litigants (April 2008)

In April 2008 the Victorian Parliament Law Reform Committee released an issues paper calling for public submissions into its inquiry on vexatious litigants.  The terms of reference for this inquiry included an examination of the efficacy of current vexatious litigant legislation.  Since 1928 only 14 people have been declared vexatious litigants in Victoria.
The Centre, together with [...]

Fair Hearing: Submission to UN Human Rights Committee on General Comment No 32 on the Right to a Fair Hearing (Aug and Jan 2007)

On 21 August 2007, the UN Human Rights Committee released General Comment No 32 on the right to equality before courts and tribunals and to a fair trial under art 14 of the ICCPR.
General Comment No 32 will be an important source of guidance on the interpretation and application of s 24 of the Victorian [...]