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