Disability, Rights and Law Reform in Australia
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 5. December 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
162 pages
978-1-76002-160-3 (ISBN)
Description
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has the potential to bring about profound changes to Australia's legal, political and social systems, affording human rights that have been historically denied to people with disability. This special issue provides a timely forum for critical analysis and reflection on the impact on Australian law of advancements in international human rights law related to disability in the decade since the CRPD entered into force. The articles consider the implementation of supported decision-making in the context of guardianship and administration laws and unfitness to stand trial laws, the criminal justice response to young people with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, the approach taken by disability discrimination laws to students with challenging behaviours, and possibilities for reimagining communication rights informed by the lived experience of disability.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Annandale, NSW
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
264 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-76002-160-3 (9781760021603)
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Persons
Fleur Beaupert is an independent researcher with a background in law and arts. She has lectured for the law faculties at La Trobe University, Western Sydney University and the University of Sydney.
Linda Steele is a senior lecturer in law at University of Technology Sydney.
Piers Gooding is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.
Linda Steele is a senior lecturer in law at University of Technology Sydney.
Piers Gooding is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.
Content
Introduction to Disability, Rights and Law Reform in Australia: Pushing Beyond Legal Futures
Fleur Beaupert, Linda Steele and Piers Gooding
Confronting Words: Driving a New Legal Lexicon of Disability
Rosalind F Croucher
Towards Supported Decision-Making: Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Guardianship Law Reform
Bruce Alston
Supported Decision-Making in Australia: Meeting the Challenge of Moving from Capacity to Capacity-Building?
Terry Carney
Supporting Accused Persons with Cognitive Disabilities to Participate in Criminal Proceedings in Australia: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Unfitness to Stand Trial Laws
Piers Gooding et al.
Indigenous Young People with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Reform to Australian Laws Governing Fitness to Stand Trial in Western Australia
Rhianna Chisholm, Tamara Tulich and Harry Blagg
Should We Take the 'Disability' Out of Discrimination Laws? Students with Challenging Behaviour and the Definition of Disability
Karen O'Connell
Communication Rights, Disability, and Law: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in National Perspective
Gerard Goggin
Fleur Beaupert, Linda Steele and Piers Gooding
Confronting Words: Driving a New Legal Lexicon of Disability
Rosalind F Croucher
Towards Supported Decision-Making: Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Guardianship Law Reform
Bruce Alston
Supported Decision-Making in Australia: Meeting the Challenge of Moving from Capacity to Capacity-Building?
Terry Carney
Supporting Accused Persons with Cognitive Disabilities to Participate in Criminal Proceedings in Australia: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Unfitness to Stand Trial Laws
Piers Gooding et al.
Indigenous Young People with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Reform to Australian Laws Governing Fitness to Stand Trial in Western Australia
Rhianna Chisholm, Tamara Tulich and Harry Blagg
Should We Take the 'Disability' Out of Discrimination Laws? Students with Challenging Behaviour and the Definition of Disability
Karen O'Connell
Communication Rights, Disability, and Law: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in National Perspective
Gerard Goggin