Previous Working Groups
Working Group on Mental Illness and Access to Legal Services
Convenor: Robin Banks (PILCH)
Terms of Reference
- To collect and collate information about current strategies being implemented and best practice models to improve access to legal services for people with mental illness.
- To disseminate to public legal assistance services through NLAF information about best practice in the provision of legal services to people with mental illness.
- To develop proposals to implement best practice across public legal assistance services in the delivery of legal and related services to people with mental illness.
- To identify particular aspects of civil and criminal law that may impact on legal rights for people with mental illness.
- To identify and develop links to related mental health initiatives.
The Working Group met between Nov. 2006 and Nov. 2007
Working Group on Interpreter Services
Convenor: Sue Scott (Law and Justice Foundation of NSW)
Terms of Reference
The Working Group was established to explore and improve access to interpreter services for clients using public legal services. The Group has undertaken research and consultation in the following areas:
- Availability of interpreters
– availability of interpreters in new and emerging languages
– availability of Auslan interpreters
– availability of free interpreters for clients of community legal centres
- Quality of interpreting services
– training for interpreters working in the legal system
- Appropriate use of interpreters
– training and resources for the legal sector in working with interpreters
The Working Group has collated some of its findings into a resource list for legal agencies using interpreters.
The Working Group met between June 2006 and Nov. 2007.
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