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Victorian children to be seen and not heard
By Erica Contini and Melissa Castan You could be forgiven for not knowing that the Victorian Parliament is passing unprecedented legislation limiting the rights of young people to legal representation in child protection proceedings. The changes were introduced last week, hidden in an obscure bill that gives no indication as to what it really contains,…
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One size does not fit all when children come to court
By Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan Two sisters aged 9 and 11 have just won a Supreme Court case in which they were claiming that they had the right to instruct their own lawyer. In A & B v Children’s Court of Victoria, the sisters were the subject of protection applications after one of them sustained…
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