Charter lifts human rights arguments
Michael Pelly; 11/4/08
Victroian lawyers have been urged to “get wise” to the potential of human rights arguments in court as the state Government prepares to table the first review of its charter of rights. Human Rights Law Resource Centre director Phil Lynch told a Victorian Bar Association forum on Wednesday night that rights arguments had been raised in up to half of all superior court cases in Britain. He also pointed to Victorian cases that showed the judiciary was ready to consider charter provisions even when lawyers did not raise them in argument.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23519668-17044,00.html
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