Design and Children's Courts

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Dietrich v R (1992) 177 CLR 292, 299 ( Mason

McHugh

United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (”The Beijing Rules’) adopted November 29, 1985, GA Res 40/33, annex, 40 UN GAOR Supp (No 53) at 207, [14.2], UN Doc A/40/53 (1985).

Hodgkin

Rachel

Newell

Peter

, ‘Manual on Human Rights Reporting’ in Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1998) 151.

Australian Law Reform Commission, Seen and Heard: Priority for children in the legal process Report No 84 (1997) (“ALRC’).

ALRC 4.22.

ALRC 18.178.

ALRC 18.187.

ALRC 18.189.

ALRC 18.188.

10.

ALRC 18.186.

11.

ALRC 18.190, Rec 234.

12.

Ibid.

13.

Campbelltown Children's Court, See lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/childrens_court/ll_cc.nsf/pages/CC_contactuscampbelltownchildrenscourtchildpage at 11 November 2008

14.

Blackmore

Rod

, The Children's Court and Community Welfare in NSW (1989) 40.

15.

Ibid.

16.

ALRC 4.20.

17.

Bail Act 1978 (NSW), s 22.

18.

Wagga Wagga Practitioners' Forum 9 May 1996, in ALRC 18.186.

19.

Mental health workers commented that being able to smell young offenders allows them to assess whether they have been taking drugs or alcohol, and properly taking care of themselves.

20.

ALRC 18.189.

21.

NSW Law Reform Commission, Young Offenders, Report 104 (2005) [9.33] lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/lrc/ll_lrc.nsf/pages/LRC_r104chp09