AndrewsG, ‘The Mental Health of Australians’ (Mental Health Branch, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra, 1999).
2.
See, eg, JablenskyA, ‘People Living with Psychotic Illness: An Australian Study 1997–98’ (Mental Health Branch, Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra, 1999) and Andrews, above n 1.
3.
This article is based on the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW study, On the Edge of Justice: The Legal Needs of People with a Mental Illness, (2006) <http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/report/mental> at 20 October 2006.
4.
Commonwealth of Australia, Senate Select Committee on Mental Health, A National Approach to Mental Health- from Crisis to Community (2006).
5.
Mental Health Council of Australia, Not for Service: Experiences of Injustice and Despair in Mental Health Care in Australia (2005).
6.
See, eg Jablensky, above n 2.
7.
Person with a mental illness interviewed for On the Edge of Justice.
8.
Disability awareness trainer interviewed On the Edge of Justice.
9.
Manager, Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW interviewed for On the Edge of Justice.
10.
FaroleD JPuffettN, Can Innovation be Institutionalized? Problem-Solving in Mainstream Courts (2004), <http://www.courtinnovation.org/pdf/can_innovation.pdf> at 20 October 2006. These features form part of an approach to courtroom processes known as ‘Therapeutic Jurisprudence’, which examines the role of the law as a therapeutic agent.
11.
Disability Council of NSW, Sydney, A Question of Justice: Access to Participation for People with Disabilities in Contact with the Justice System (2003).
12.
Community legal centre worker interviewed for On the Edge of Justice.
