New South Wales

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The NSW branch is active. The committee contact details are here

Events

Seminar:  De facto life sentences for the mentally ill: Have we moved on?

23rd June @ 6pm (5:30pm registration).  Public Defenders Chambers (Level 13, 175 Liverpool St, Sydney)

This ANZAPPL NSW seminar is a follow-up to a previous ANZAPPL seminar ‘De facto life sentences for the mentally ill’. 

The Hon Greg James QC will present a summary of his Review and Recommendations of the operation of the NSW Forensic Mental Health System and the treatment of the mentally ill in the justice system. Mr James will also give an account of the proceedings of the NSW
Law Reform Commission work on the concepts of mental illness and unfitness for trial and the court processes.

Other speakers include:
A/Prof John Basson (Statewide Director Forensic Mental Health)
Mr Steve Mark, (NSW Legal Services Commissioner & Director of Midnight Basketball)
Dr Michael Giuffrida (Consultant Psychiatrist & member of the MHRT)

Click here for the flyer

The bill that is currently going through the NSW Parliment associated with this seminar can be found here: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/nswbills.nsf/131a07fa4b8a041cca256e610012de17/20e770fe8a81f958ca257473001d7226!OpenDocument

 

AGM

Our seminar on "Human Rights for Dangerous Prisoners"  with speakers: Prof Patrick Keyzer from Bond University; Stephen Allnutt, Christopher Lennings and Siobhan Mullany was exceptionally well received.  Speakers provided insightful talks on topics related to the recent introduction of preventative detention legislation in NSW that spanned all three disciplines. 

• Details can be found here
• Click on the name for the presentations:
  • Chris Lennings
  • Stephen Allnutt
  • Siobhan Mullany
  • Patrick Keyzer (to be published in the coming weeks)

Jury Research & Practise Conference

The NSW Branch of ANZAPPL sponsored the 5th annual Jury Research and Practice Conference.  The confernce was held at the NSW Parliment House on Tuesday, 11th December.  Click here for a selection of the papers that were presented.

 

2008 ANZAPPL Conference

The committee has been very busy this year preparing for the 2008 confernce, to be held in Manly from 23-26 October, 2008.  Stay tuned for more details. 

If you would like to submit an abstract for the conference, please contact contact The Conference Organiser: Phone (61 3) 9349 2220
Email: info@conorg.com.au