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Annual Report 2017 Annual Report 2017 LJFAR_2017_Cover.indd 1 5/12/2017 9:29 am LJFAR_2017_Cover.indd 2 5/12/2017 9:29 am Annual Report 2017 LJFAR_2017_Text.indd 1 7/12/2017 1:50 pm Publisher Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales Level 13, 222 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box A109, Sydney South NSW 1235 Ph: +61 2 8227 3200 Email: [email protected] Web: www.lawfoundation.net.au Front cover image: Logo by Rock Lily Design. Typeset by: Midland Typesetters Pty Ltd. Printed by: Fineline Printing Australia Pty Ltd. © Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales, November 2017 ISSN 1832-7281 ISBN 978-0-9945950-5-8 (paperback) Further copies of the Annual Report 2017 can be downloaded from www.lawfoundation.net.au LJFAR_2017_Text.indd 2 7/12/2017 1:50 pm Letter of transmittal 9 November 2017 The Hon. Mark Speakman MP SC Attorney General of NSW 52 Martin Place SYDNEY NSW 2000 Dear Attorney I present to you a copy of the Annual Report of the Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales for the fi nancial year 2016–2017. This report has been prepared in accordance with the Law and Justice Foundation Act 2000 (NSW) and approved by the Foundation’s Board of Governors. I would be grateful if you could arrange for the tabling of the report in both Houses of Parliament as soon as practicable. Yours sincerely Paul Stein Chair Board of Governors Law and Justice Foundation of NSW TEL 02 8227 3200 Level 13, 222 Pitt Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 WEB www.lawfoundation.net.au PO Box A109 EMAIL [email protected] Sydney South NSW 1235 ABN 54 227 668 981 AUSTRALIA LJFAR_2017_Text.indd 3 7/12/2017 1:50 pm 4 Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales l Annual Report 2017 LJFAR_2017_Text.indd 4 7/12/2017 1:50 pm Contents Our organisation 7 About the Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales 7 Our goals and objectives 7 Board of Governors 8 Year in review 9 Message from the Chair 9 Message from the Director 12 Performance 2016–2017 15 Goal 1: Identify legal need and what works to address that need 15 1.1 Identify legal need 15 1.2 Enhance and exploit legal sector data 21 1.3 Identify what works 24 1.4 Respond to priority access to justice issues 29 Goal 2: Improve access to justice 30 2.1 Support projects – the grants program 30 2.2 Facilitate legal sector relationships and coordination 37 2.3 Community legal education and referral program 37 2.4 Disseminate data, analysis and information 38 Goal 3: Cost-eff ective operations support 42 3.1 Develop the information management capabilities of the Foundation 42 3.2 Manage resources effi ciently and eff ectively 42 Financial report 43 Governors’ report 43 Auditor’s report 45 Governors’ declaration 47 Financial statements 48 Declaration of independence 61 Acknowledgements 62 5 LJFAR_2017_Text.indd 5 7/12/2017 1:50 pm 6 Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales l Annual Report 2017 LJFAR_2017_Text.indd 6 7/12/2017 1:50 pm Our organisation About the Law and Justice Foundation Our goals and objectives of New South Wales Goal 1: Identify legal need and what works to Who we are address that need The Law and Justice Foundation of New South 1.1 Identify legal need Wales is an independent, statutory, not-for-profi t 1.2 Enhance and exploit legal sector data organisation established in 1967 to improve access 1.3 Identify what works to address legal need to justice for the people of New South Wales. It is 1.4 Respond to priority access to justice issues incorporated in New South Wales by the Law and Goal 2: Improve access to justice Justice Foundation Act 2000 (NSW). 2.1 Develop projects – our grants program 2.2 Facilitate legal sector relationships and coordination Our purpose 2.3 Community legal education and referral Our purpose is to advance the fairness and equity of program the justice system, and to improve access to justice 2.4 Disseminate data, analysis and information to for socially and economically disadvantaged people. improve access to justice Goal 3: Cost-eff ective operations support What we believe 3.1 Develop the information management Our purpose is underpinned by the following beliefs: capabilities of the Foundation • a fair and equitable justice system is essential for a 3.2 Manage resources effi ciently and eff ectively democratic, civil society. • reform should, where possible, be based on sound research. • people need accurate, understandable information to have equitable access to justice. • community support agencies and non-government organisations play a critical role in improving access to justice for disadvantaged people. What we do • Identify legal and access to justice needs, particularly of socially and economically disadvantaged people. • Identify eff ective legal system reforms and access to justice initiatives through evaluation and research. • Improve access to justice through: – contributing to the availability of understandable legal information – supporting projects and organisations that improve access to justice – disseminating information about access to justice and eff ective reforms and initiatives. 7 LJFAR_2017_Text.indd 7 7/12/2017 1:50 pm Board of Governors The Hon. Daniel Mookhey MLC was elected to the Legislative Council of the The Board consists of eight members who are NSW Parliament in May 2015. He holds appointed for a term of three years. The Board a Bachelor of Economics Bachelor of determines policies for the implementation of the Laws from the University of Technology Sydney. objects of the Foundation. The Director conducts Prior to entering Parliament, he worked for the and manages the aff airs of the Foundation in Australian Council of Trade Unions and the think- accordance with the directions of the Board. Board tank Per Capita. He also ran a consulting fi rm for members during the 2016-2017 fi nancial year were not-for-profi t organisations. He is a member of the as follows. Legislative Council Standing Committee on Law and The Hon. Paul Stein AM QC is the Justice. Chair of the Law and Justice Foundation Geoff Mulherin CSC has been Board of Governors. He became a judge Director of the Foundation since in 1983 and was appointed to the Land November 2000. and Environment Court in 1985. In 1997, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal where he remained until his retirement in 2004. He has undertaken a The Hon. Kevin Rozzoli AM is the number of reports and reviews for the government, chair of the Foundation’s Investment and is the former chair of the Board of the Sub-Committee. He was the member for Environment Protection Authority. He has chaired the New South Wales electorate of committees and associations, in particular the Hawkesbury from 1973 until his retirement from Council of the Community Justice Centres and the politics in 2003, and from 1988 to 1995 was the National Consumer Aff airs Advisory Council. He has Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He was written numerous articles and papers on admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1985. environmental, administrative and consumer law, He is on the board of a number of not-for-profi t as well as on human rights and discrimination. organisations including the Public Interest Advocacy Jason Behrendt is the Managing Centre, Environmental Defenders Offi ce and the Director of Chalk & Behrendt. For the Medical Advances Without Animals Trust, and for last 20 years he has advised Aboriginal the past 30 years has been chair of the Haymarket corporations and land councils in Foundation. relation to land rights, native title and John Sheahan QC has been in practice Commonwealth and state environmental legislation. at the bar since 1985, and was appointed He is currently the Chair of the Indigenous Issues as senior counsel in 1997. His principal Committee at the Law Society of NSW and a areas of practice are corporate law, member of the Indigenous Legal Issues Committee competition, and banking and fi nance. He is a past of the Law Council of Australia. president of the Public Interest Law Clearing House Coralie Kenny is a fi nancial services (now Justice Connect) and is currently a member of lawyer who worked in-house in wealth the board of the Haymarket Foundation. In 2014 he management for over 20 years. She is a was appointed to the Takeovers Panel. Councillor of the Law Society of NSW and Professor Julie Stubbs is a chairs the Society’s Corporate Lawyers’ and Business criminologist and Professor in the Law committees, and is a member of the Licensing and Faculty of Law at UNSW Australia. She Diversity & Inclusion committees. She also chairs the was previously Professor of Criminology Law Council of Australia’s SME Business Law at the University of Sydney, where she had been Committee and is a director of the Public Interest Director of the Institute of Criminology. Before Advocacy Centre and Legal Super Pty Ltd, where she becoming an academic, she was a senior researcher chairs the Investments Committee. with the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. 8 Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales l Annual Report 2017 LJFAR_2017_Text.indd 8 7/12/2017 1:50 pm Year in review The origins of the Law Foundation of New South Wales The Hon. Murray Gleeson AC 2009 Law and Justice Address The Law Foundation was the outcome of a dispute between the New South Wales legal profession and the major banks … The dispute concerned interest on moneys standing to the credit of solicitors’ trust accounts.
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