Miss Li Tien Wong, Mr Tuck Leong Ow Yong1 1State Courts, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore The paper describes Community Justice and Tribunal Division (CJTD) experience in developing a community justice strategy encompassing both adversarial and non-adversarial justice tools in resolving disputes,...
- January 12, 2017
Katey Thom1, Stella Black2 1 University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, k.thom@auckland.ac.nz 2 University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, stella.black@auckland.ac.nz This paper will explore the meaning of ‘therapeutic’ in the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court...
- January 12, 2017
Miss Lih Jeng Low1 1State Courts. Singapore, Singapore, Singapore The paper examines how the establishment of the State Courts Centre for Dispute Resolution (SCCDR) in March 2015 consolidated the different ADR services offered by separate divisions in the State Courts...
- January 12, 2017
Mr Weng Kuan Eugene Teo1 1State Courts, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore This paper seeks to shed some light on a mediation process in Singapore which has not received much review: i.e. Criminal Mediations. The paper traces its history, development, rationale, and...
- January 12, 2017
Associate Professor Sarah Murray1 1 University of Western Australia Law School, M253, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009, sarah.murray@uwa.edu.au Neighbourhood Justice Centres (NJCs) are community-based, problem-solving justice institutions, designed to create better outcomes for individuals while also reducing social disadvantage,...
- January 12, 2017
Tyrone Kirchengast1 1 UNSW Law, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052. Email: t.kirchengast@unsw.edu.au Brazil is a federal republic constituted by twenty-seven states, including the federal district of Brasilia. Brazilian law has been influenced by various legal traditions, including Portuguese,...
- January 12, 2017
Michelle Edgely1 1 University of New England, School of Law, Armidale NSW 2351, medgely@une.edu.au Arguably, traditional sentencing theory reflects a balance between Kantian retributivism based on assumptions of formally equal rational and autonomous moral agents, and pragmatic Benthamite utilitarianism. Although...
- January 12, 2017
Dr Lola Akin Ojelabi1 1 School of Law, La Trobe University, Kingsbury Drive, Bundoora, Melbourne VIC 3086 Cultural differences may become an issue in mediation in many respects. There may be cultural differences as between the parties and the mediators...
- January 12, 2017
Dr Lola Akin Ojelabi1 and Professor Mary Anne Noone 2 1 Law School, La Trobe University, Victoria Australia 3086 o.akinojelabi@latrobe.edu.au 2 Law School, La Trobe University, Victoria Australia 3086 m.noone@latrobe.edu.au ADR processes are now used extensively in Australia to resolve...
- January 12, 2017
Anina Johnson1, Matthew Carroll2 1 Mental Health Review Tribunal, NSW, PO Box 2019, Boronia Park, NSW 2111 2 Matthew Carroll, Mental Health Tribunal, Vic Level 30, 570 Bourke St, Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia In each Australian jurisdiction mental health tribunals...
- January 12, 2017
