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Opinion on Legality of Trial before Guantanamo Military Commission (Nov 2006) Counter-Terrorism: David Hicks - Relevance of Human Rights to Control Order Conditions (Feb 2008) Counter-Terrorism: Joseph Thomas v The Queen - Amicus Application (July 2006) Counter-Terrorism: Request for Urgent Action from UN re Conditions of Unconvicted Remand Prisoners (Aug 2006) Family Rights: Nystrom v Australia - Communication to UN Human Rights Committee under First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (Apr 2007) Civil and Political Rights: Major NGO Report on Australia to UN Human Rights Committee (Sept 2008) Counter-Terrorism: Submission to Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws Bill (Sep 2008) Mental Health: Kracke v Mental Health Review Board & Ors (Nov 2008) Mental Health: Michael David Jones v R - Relevance of Human Rights to Sentencing of Prisoner with Mental Illness (Oct 2006) Prisoners' Rights: Compensation Bill Violates Human Rights (Aug 2008) Refugee Rights: Taha v Australia - Communication to UN Human Rights Committee under Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (Dec 2005) Prisoners' Rights: 'High-Risk Offenders' - 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Submission on Post-Sentence Supervision and Detention (Feb 2007) Prisoners' Rights: Western Suburbs Legal Service v Dept of Justice - FoI Application regarding Prison Administration (Feb 2008) Economic, Social and Cultural Rights A Human Rights Agenda for the 75th Anniversary of the UDHR (Nov 2008) Civil and Political Rights: Major NGO Report on Australia to UN Human Rights Committee (Sept 2008) ESC Rights: FREDA - NGO Report to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (April 2008) Housing Rights: Metrowest Housing v Hailu (Nov 2008) ESC Rights: Optional Protocol to ICESCR - Australia Urged to Support Negotiation of Text (March 2008) Homelessness: Request for Urgent Action from UN Special Rapporteurs (Nov 2006) Indigenous Rights: Submission on Review of Northern Territory Emergency Response (Aug 2008) Mental Health: A Human Rights Approach to Mental Health Strategy (July 2008) Social Security: General Comment on the Human Right to Social Security (Nov 2007 and June 2006) Equality Rights A Human Rights Agenda for the 75th Anniversary of the UDHR (Nov 2008) Civil and Political Rights: Major NGO Report on Australia to UN Human Rights Committee (Sept 2008) Disability Rights: Australia should Ratify OP to Disability Convention (Oct 2008) Disability Rights: Australia Urged to Ratify UN Convention (Feb 2008) Equality: Discrimination against Same-Sex Couples (June 2006) Indigenous Rights: Request for Country Visit from UN Special Rapporteur (Nov 2006) Equality: Submission to Senate Inquiry into the Same-Sex Relationships Bill (Sep 2008) Equality: Submissions to Equal Opportunity Act Reviews (May, April and Jan 2008) Indigenous Rights: Australia Urged to Endorse UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (May 2008) Indigenous Rights: Land Management and Cultural Practices (Oct 2007) Indigenous Rights: Submission on Review of Northern Territory Emergency Response (Aug 2008) Indigenous Rights: Submission to Senate Inquiry into NT 'Emergency Response' Bills (Aug 2007) Women's Rights: Australia Must Ratify OP-CEDAW - 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Justice Chris Maxwell, Speech at Launch of Human Rights Law Resource Centre Justice John Perry, International Human Rights and Domestic Law and Advocacy Lord Robert Walker, 'What Difference can a Human Rights Charter Make?' Papers from Achieving Social Justice for Indigenous Australians Seminar Paul Hunt, Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously Sir Gerard Brennan on 'The Constitution, Good Government and Human Rights' 'Strengthening Human Rights and the Rule of Law', Speech by Federal A-G to HRLRC on 7 August 2008 The Right to Humane Treatment in Detention: How do Victorian Prisons Rate? 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VSCA 49 (26 March 2008) Gray v DPP [2008] VSC (16 January 2008) Guneser v Magistrates' Court of Victoria & Anor [2008] VSC 57 (5 March 2008) Guss v Aldy Corporation Pty Ltd & Anor (Civil Claims) [2008] VCAT 912 (1 May 2008) Kortel v Mirik and Mirik [2008] VSC 103 (4 April 2008) LM (Guardianship) [2008] VCAT 2084 (9 October 2008) MH6 v Mental Health Review Board (General) [2008] VCAT 846 (7 May 2008) MM (Guardianship) [2008] VCAT 1282 (26 June 2008) R v Benbrika & Ors (Ruling No 20) [2008] VSC 80 (20 March 2008) R v White [2007] VSC 142 (7 May 2007) R v Williams [2007] VSC 2 (15 January 2007) Ragg v Magistrates’ Court of Victoria and Corcoris [2008] VSC 1 (24 January 2008) Re Dickson [2008] VSC 516 (26 November 2008) RJE v Secretary to the Department of Justice [2008] VSCA 131 (18 December 2008) Royal Victorian Bowls Association Inc (Anti-Discrimination Exemption) [2008] VCAT 2415 (26 November 2008) Sabet v Medical Practitioners Board [2008] VSC 346 (12 September 2008) Seachange Management Pty Ltd v Bevnol Constructions & Developments Pty Ltd & Ors (Domestic Building) [2008] VCAT 1479 Swain v Department of Infrastructure (General) [2008] VCAT 848 (9 May 2008) Tomasevic v Travaglini & Anor [2007] VSC 337 (13 September 2007) TSL v Secretary to the Department of Justice [2006] VSCA (26 September 2006) X v General Television Corporation Pty Ltd & Ors [2008] VSC 344 (8 September 2008) XFJ v Director of Public Transport (Occupational and Business Regulation) [2008] VCAT 2303 (31 October 2008) Database of Select International and Comparative Caselaw Relevant to the Charter Aboushanif v Norway, Communication No 1542/2007, CCPR/C/93/D/1542/2007 (2 September 2008) Abrahamian v Austria [2008] ECHR 35354/04 (10 April 2008) Andrey Frolov v Russia [2007] ECHR 205/02 (29 March 2007) Animal Defenders International, R (On The Application of) v Secretary of State For Culture, Media and Sport [2008] UKHL 15 (12 March 2008) AS (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 1118 (15 October 2008) Baczkowski & Ors v Poland [2007] ECHR 1543/06 (3 May 2007) Bakan v Turkey [2007] ECHR 50939/99 (12 June 2007) Balçik v Turkey [2007] ECHR 25/02 (29 November 2007) Beoku-Betts (FC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2008] UKHL 39 (25 June 2008) Bobrowski v Poland [2008] ECHR 64916/01 (17 June 2008) Boehringer Ingelheim Limited v Vetplus Limited [2007] EWCA Civ 583 (20 June 2007) Brooke & Anor, R v Parole Board [2007] EWHC 2036 (7 September 2007) Brooke & Ors, R (on the application of) v The Parole Board & Anor [2008] EWCA Civ 29 (1 February 2008) Brooker v The Police [2007] NZSC 30 (4 May 2007) Brough v Australia (UN Human Rights Committee, Communication No 1184/2003) Budayeva v Russia [2008] ECHR 15339/02 & Ors (20 March 2008) Bukta v Hungary [2007] ECHR 25691/04 (17 July 2007) Canada v JTI-Macdonald Corp 2007 SCC 30 (28 June 2007) Capital Property Projects (ACT) Pty Ltd v ACTPLA [2008] ACTCA 9 (21 May 2008) Capital Property Projects (ACT) Pty Ltd v Planning and Land Authority [2006] ACTSC 122 (15 December 2006) Charkaoui v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2007 SCC 9 Ciorap v Moldova [2007] ECHR 12066/02 (19 June 2007) Coleman v Australia, HRC, Communication No 1157/2003, UN Doc CCPR/C/87/D/1157/2003 (10 August 2006) Commonwealth v Davis Samuel Pty Ltd [No 3] [2008] ACTSC 76 Copland v United Kingdom [2007] ECHR 62617/00 (3 April 2007) D and E v Australia, HRC, Communication No 1050/2002, UN Doc CCPR/C/87/D/1050/2002 (25 July 2006) Danyal Shafiq v Australia, CCPR/C/88/D/1324/2004 (13 November 2006) DH and Others v the Czech Republic [2007] ECHR 57325/00 (Grand Chamber) (13 November 2007) Dickson v United Kingdom [2007] ECHR 44362/04 (Grand Chamber, 4 December 2007) Doherty & Ors v Birmingham City Council [2008] UKHL 57 (30 July 2008) Dudko v Australia, HRC, UN Doc CCPR/C/90/D/1347/2005 (29 August 2007) Dyebeku v Albania [2007] ECHR 41153/06 (18 December 2007) Dzieciak v 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20511/03 (17 July 2008) In the Matter of an Adoption of D [2008] ACTSC 44 (15 May 2008) JL, R v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWCA Civ 767 (24 July 2007) Johnson v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWCA Civ 427 (9 May 2007) JT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 878 (28 July 2008) Kafkaris v Cyprus [2008] ECHR 21906/04 (12 February 2008) Kalamiotis v Greece, Communication No 1486/2006, CCPR/C/93/D/1486/2006 (5 August 2008) Keogh v R [2007] EWCA Crim 528 Kijewska v Poland [2007] ECHR 73002/01 (6 September 2007) Kucheruk v Ukraine [2007] ECHR 2570/04 (6 September 2007) Lindon, Otchakovsky-Laurens and July v France [2007] ECHR 21279/02, 36448/02 (22 October 2007) Main(R) v Minister for Legal Aid [2007] EWHC 742 (2 April 2007) Makhmudov v Russia [2007] ECHR 35082/04 (26 July 2007) Maslov v Austria [2008] ECHR [GC] 1638/03 (23 June 2008) McCann v United Kingdom [2008] ECHR 19009/04 (13 May 2008) Melnikova v Russia [2007] ECHR 24552/02 (21 June 2007) MG v Germany, Communication No 1482/2006, CCPR/C/93/D/1482/2006 (2 September 2008) Michalak v Poland [2007] ECHR 16864/02 (18 September 2007) Murray v Big Pictures (UK) Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 446 (07 May 2008) Nowak v Poland [2007] ECHR 18390/02 (18 September 2007) Occupiers of 51 Olivia Road, Berea Township and 197 Main Street, Johannesburg v City of Johannesburg CCT 24/07 [2008] ZACC 1 (19 February 2008) Oganova v Georgia [2007] ECHR 25717/03 (13 November 2007) Owczar v Poland [2007] ECHR 34117/02 (18 September 2007) Paladi v Moldova [2007] ECHR 39806/05 (10 July 2007) Pankiewicz v Poland [2008] ECHR 34151/4 (12 February 2008) Perovic v CW, No CH 05/1046, ACT Children’s Court, Unreported (1 June 2006) Pfeifer v Austria [2007] ECHR 12566/03 (15 November 2007) PHS Community Services Society v Attorney-General (Canada) 2008 BCSC 661 (27 May 2008) PHS Community Services Society v Canada (Attorney General), 2008 BCSC 1453 (31 October 2008) R (B Mohamed) v 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