Strengthening Disability Advocacy conference 2012
Disability advocacy and the legal system: You be the judge!

Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 March 2012 @ Melbourne Park Function Centre

Guardianship and supported decision making

When

Monday 26th March, 2012: 2:00am - 2:45am

Where

Yellow Room

Speakers

Greg Leeson, Lawyer, Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc.

Greg has worked as a casework and policy and law reform lawyer at Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc. for the past 8 years. During that time he has represented many people in relation to guardianship and administration matters and various other legal issues and provided community legal education on these areas of the law.

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John Chesterman, Manager Policy and Education, Office of the Public Advocate (OPA)

John is a trained lawyer and prior to joining OPA he lectured in politics for more than eight years at the University of Melbourne. He has written a number of books, including (with Louise Chappell and Lisa Hill) The Politics of Human Rights in Australia (Cambridge University Press).

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Sophie Delaney, Senior Lawyer, Mental Health and Disability Program, Victoria Legal Aid

Sophie works as a solicitor and advocate in Mental Health Review Board, Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) and Disability Act proceedings. She has published major articles in relation to Victoria’s Mental Health Act and the United Nation Mental Health Principles, and on an optimally rights recognising mental health review tribunal.

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Anne Coghlan, Deputy President, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Human rights division

This Division is responsible for the Guardianship List, the Anti-Discrimination List, the Mental Health List and the Health and Privacy List. Anne has extensive experience in the area of Merits Review. Before becoming a member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, she was a member of the Victorian Administrative Appeals Tribunal, having been appointed to … Continued

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