Labor will ensure a more even playing field for private litigants, so that small businesses and their industry representatives can better use existing legislation to prove the abuse of competition under Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act. Allowing judges in Federal Court to waive liability of adverse costs, private litigants under Part IV...

The Federation welcomes the Victorian Government’s Access to Justice Review, and the opportunity to identify improvements that can be made at a state level to address the access to justice crisis. The Federation, along with many member CLCs, made substantial contributions to the Productivity Commission’s 2013-14 Inquiry into Access to Justice Arrangements. We support many...

This report represents a snapshot of how the world has tried to develop mechanisms to protect children’s rights and ensure that there are remedies for violations of children’s rights. Summary Access to justice is a human right, but it is also what makes other rights a reality. For children’s rights to be more than a...

VCOSS welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Victorian Government’s Access to Justice Review. Access to justice is fundamental to a fair and inclusive society. Inadequate human rights protection, poor legal services access and inequality before the law can have significant and farreaching impacts for vulnerable Victorians. Access to justice, including a fair hearing...

Great expectations accompany many community legal education and information (CLEI) strategies - as tools to empower, to prevent legal issues escalating and to improve access to justice. This paper seeks to identify what different CLEI strategies may actually provide. To move beyond the great expectations, this paper provides a model for identifying different types of...