Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, opened for signature 30 March 2007, 2515 UNTS 3 (entered into force 3 May 2008).
6.
A General Comment can be used by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to publish its interpretation of the provision of the CRPD. General comments can address the comprehensive interpretation of substantive provisions as well as wider issues relevant to the CRPD.
7.
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, General Comment No 1: Article 12: Equal Recognition before the Law, 11th sess, UN Doc CRPD/C/GC/I (19 May 2014).
8.
Australia ratified the CRPD in July 2008 and signed the Optional Protocol in 2009.
9.
CRPD, 2515 UNTS 3, art 12 and 13.
10.
Ibid art 12.
11.
Ibid art 13.
12.
FlynnElionóirArstein-KerslakeAnna, ‘The Support Model of Legal Capacity: Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy?’ (2014) 32Berkeley Journal of International Law124.
13.
CRPD, 2515 UNTS 3, art 4(5).
14.
Ibid art 12(3).
15.
Disability Rights Now, ‘Civil Society Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Civil Society Report’ (August 2012) 72.
16.
Ibid73.
17.
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN Doc CRPD/C/GC/I.
18.
CRPD, 2515 UNTS 3, art 13.
19.
Disability Rights Now, above n 15, 78 (citations omitted).
20.
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN Doc CRPD/C/GC/I, 10.
21.
Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality, Capacity, Disability in Commonwealth Laws, Report No 124 (2014) [7.156].
22.
Ibid [7.162].
23.
Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) s 13.
24.
ALRC, above n 21 [7.170].
25.
Ibid.
26.
Ibid [7.7]
27.
Ibid [7.8]
28.
Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) s 30.
29.
ALRC, above n 21 [7.176].
30.
Ibid [7–10].
31.
Ibid [7.181].
32.
Ibid [7–11].
33.
Only available in: Judicial Commission of New South Wales, Equality Before the Law Bench Book (8th ed, 2014); Supreme Court of Queensland, Equal Treatment Benchbook (2005); Department of the Attorney-General WA, Equality Before the Law Bench Book (2009).
