Judicial authority is constituted by everyday practices of individual judicial officers, balancing
the obligations of formal law and procedure with the distinctive interactional demands of …

Recent theorising about feminist judging has concentrated on appellate courts and their
judgments. This paper develops a conceptualisation of feminist judging in lower, first …

Results This project identified 51 programs operating for the diversion of drug and drug-
related offenders throughout Australia. By examining their key features we noted that …

Over the past several decades in countries like Australia, the response to crime is moving in
two directions. One tack is innovative: it promises to change established forms of criminal …

Relatively little attention has been paid to lower courts' capacity to bring about social
change, despite the fact that most citizens who come into contact with the judicial system will …

Australia lacks a satisfactory, national paradigm for assessing legal capacity in the context of
testamentary, enduring power of attorney and advance care directive documents. Capacity …

Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Restorative Justice and the Law - Kathy Douglas, 2007 Skip to
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Legal professionals can be better equipped to meet community members' needs through
their legal education. This thesis research investigates how legal education can improve the …

New paradigms of judging–procedural justice and therapeutic jurisprudence–explicitly
acknowledge the importance of judicial interaction with court participants, including the role …

The focus of this thesis is deeply practical insofar as it examines how existing laws, practices
and procedures can be more therapeutically applied in the Children's Court. The research is …