Elise Archer,Attorney-General Minister for Justice I need to correct the false and lazy assertions put out today by Ella Haddad. The Tasmanian Law Reform.
Premier of Tasmania
Commission of Inquiry formally established
I am pleased to announce that yesterday, 15 March 2021, Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AC as Governor-in Council, signed the Order to formally establish the
Commission of Inquiry into Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings.
That Order formally established the Honourable Marcia Neave AO as President of the Commission, and appointed two other Commissioners to assist her with the Inquiry, namely Professor Leah Bromfield and former Family Court Justice the Honourable Robert Benjamin AM.
Professor Leah Bromfield is one of Australia’s foremost child protection researchers. She is a Co-Director at the Australian Centre for Child Protection and was the Professorial Fellow to the
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Author: Eileen Baldry
(MENAFN - The Conversation) This week, the royal commission into the violence, abuse and neglect of people with disability will begin hold hearings on a shameful subject that has long been neglected: the indefinite detention of people with cognitive impairments and/or mental illness in our criminal justice systems.
Indefinite detention is what happens to defendants in criminal cases when they are deemed unfit to stand trial .
In common law, this unfitness test is based on whether the accused has sufficient mental or intellectual capacity to understand the proceedings and make an adequate defence.
If a person is found unfit to plead, they can instead be detained in a prison or forensic unit for the purposes of treatment. This detention can be indefinite if the person is deemed to be a risk of harming themselves or others and is not seen to improve.