The February 2007 edition of the Human Rights Law Resource Bulletin includes:
- An opinion piece about the relationship between democracy and Charters of Rights by Dr Helen Szoke and Matthew Carroll of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
- Information about the UN Human Rights Committee’s draft General Comment on the Right to a Fair Hearing and Equality before the Courts
- A casenote on a recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights regarding access to adequate healthcare for prisoners
- A summary of the HRLRC’s submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission Civil Justice Review regarding the relevance of the Charter of Rights to civil justice and procedure
- An overview of the HRLRC’s recent communication to the UN Human Rights Committee under the 1st Optional Protocol to the ICCPR regarding the deportation of a long-term Australian resident
- Information about forthcoming seminars and events, including a lecture with Justice Zak Yacoob of the South African Constitutional Court, the HRLRC 2007 Human Rights Dinner, and the EOCV’s 2007 Human Rights Conference
- A book review of What Price Security? Taking Stock of Australia’s Anti-Terror Laws by Dr Andrew Lynch and Prof George Williams
- Information about forthcoming workshops on the Victorian Charter of Human Rights
- ‘If I Were Attorney-General’ by Hugh de Kretser, the newly appointed Executive Officer of the Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic)
