Natalie along with fellow LIV Committee members Elise Almond, Dominique Saunders and Melissa Purcell published an article in the Law Institute Journal online issue focusing on the provisions of the VCAT Act that limit the universal human rights of clients appearing in guardianship and administration matters.
Snapshot
The article highlighted the goal of rights-based approach to advocacy of ensuring that to the greatest extent clients are in the same position as any party to a hearing. Clause 37 in Schedule 1 of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 1998 (VCAT Act) (clause 37) is one provision that limits this advocacy goal.
Clause 37 calls on the duty of solicitors to ask constantly whether the content of the law “so appearing is contrary to the universal human rights”1 that every member of our community should enjoy.
- Michael Kirby, “The Rule of Law Beyond the Law of Rules” (2010) 2471 Australian Bar Review 27.
