ALHR Access to Justice Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

April 30, 2009

Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

The submission looks at:

  • (A) The ability of people to access legal representation;
  • (B) The adequacy of legal aid;
  • (C) The need to resource human rights advocacy and casework;
  • (D) The need to pay attention to access to justice issues with regard to the new National Action Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children;
  • (E) The need to remove fees to access the Refugee Review Tribunal;
  • (F) The adequacy of funding and resource arrangements for community legal centres; and most crucially;
  • (G) The ability of Indigenous people to access justice.