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2012 Justice Awards Program Wednesday 31 October 2012 Strangers’ Dining Room Parliament House Macquarie Street, Sydney The Law and Justice Foundation of NSW is an independent, statutory, not-for-profit organisation established in 1967 to improve access to justice for the people of NSW. It is incorporated by the Law and Justice Foundation Act 2000 (NSW). The Foundation’s purpose is to advance the fairness and equity of the justice system, and to improve access to justice for socially and economically disadvantaged people. Welcome to the 2012 Justice Awards The Law and Justice Foundation’s annual Justice Awards recognise the contributions of individuals and organisations to improving access to justice in NSW, particularly for socially and economically disadvantaged people. The Awards presentation is a unique opportunity for the Foundation to highlight the achievements of so many, and for our guests to celebrate and congratulate them. Program for the evening 6.30pm Welcome Presentation of the LIAC Centre of Excellence Award Presentation of the Community Legal Centres NSW Award Presentation of the Law Society President’s Award Presentation of the Law and Justice Volunteer Award 8.00pm Dinner 8.30pm The 2012 Law and Justice Address by Father Frank Brennan 9.00pm Presentation of the Pro Bono Partnership Award Presentation of the Aboriginal Justice Award Presentation of the Justice Medal 10.20pm Close 1 Your host this evening The Hon. Paul Stein QC AM Chair, Board of Governors, Law and Justice Foundation of NSW The Hon. Paul Stein was appointed as Chair of the Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales in 2005. He became a Judge in 1983 and was appointed to the Land 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 number of reports and reviews for the Government and is the former Chair of the Board of the Environmental Protection Authority. He has chaired committees and associations, in particular the Council of the Community Justice Centres and the National Consumer Affairs Advisory Council. He has contributed articles and papers on environmental, administrative and consumer law as well as human rights and discrimination. The 2012 Law and Justice Address Father Frank Brennan SJ AO Frank Brennan is a Jesuit priest, an adjunct fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and professor of law in the Institute of Legal Studies at the Australian Catholic University, and professor of human rights and social justice at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He has written books on Aboriginal issues (The Wik Debate, One Land One Nation, Sharing the Country and Land Rights Queensland Style), civil liberties (Too Much Order with Too Little Law and Legislating Liberty) and Australia’s asylum policies (Tampering with Asylum). In 2006 he published Acting On Conscience: When Church And State Collide, a book examining the place of religion in Australian politics and law. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to Aboriginal Australians, particularly as an advocate in the areas of law, social justice and reconciliation. He and Pat Dodson shared the inaugural ACFOA Human Rights Award from the Australian Council for Overseas Aid. During the 1998 Wik debate, Paul Keating famously referred to him as the ‘meddling priest’. Your MC this evening Richard Glover Richard Glover presents the top rating Drive show on ABC 702 Radio in Sydney and he has published a weekly column in The Sydney Morning Herald for over 20 years. He has been a guest on television programs such as Sunrise, the Morning Show, the Today Show, Sixty Minutes, Lateline and The Glasshouse. Richard is the author of twelve books, the latest of which is Why Men Are Necessary, published by HarperCollins. His other books include The Mud House, a memoir about building a house in the Australian bush, the best-seller Desperate Husbands (also published in translation in Italy and Poland), The Dag’s Dictionary, In Bed with Jocasta and The P-Plate Parent (co-written with Angela Webber). 2 LIAC Centre of Excellence Award The winners are: Port Stephens Library Tamworth City Library For 2012 Law Week, Port Stephens Tamworth City Library’s 2012 Law Library developed promotional Week program ‘Legal information for materials and foyer displays to showcase local youth’ developed as a result of a Presented by: Find Legal Answers resources. As part of community meeting where levels of the display, staff created a presentation crime in the local area, especially levels of Ms Frances Sims on the resources which was screened juvenile offences, were issues identified Director continuously during Law Week. The as a concern. In response to these issues, Public Library and library also designed and delivered a the Library screened the short film free two-hour hands-on workshop on Burn, a major crime prevention project Community Learning Find Legal Answers tailored for members by Legal Aid NSW for young people Services of the Port Stephens Third Age Learning about group offending. The film aims State Library of NSW Inc (U3A). The workshop was based to prevent young people participating around finding answers to everyday in serious group assaults and robberies. questions that this particular group Legal Aid NSW facilitated a discussion Sponsored by: may have about the law. The aim of the session after the screening and talked Legal Information Access workshop was to increase awareness about legal issues for young people in Centre (LIAC) of the legal resources available in the general. The event was well attended by community and as a result of very young people in the area, and as a result, positive feedback from participants, a relationship between the Library and another workshop has been planned. disengaged youth was established. The LIAC is a statewide service The Library has also reported increased Library also conducted other successful providing free community use of the legal collection as a result of events as part of its Law Week program, access to legal information. the workshop. including a presentation for local HSC LIAC is an initiative of the Legal Studies students on accessing legal State Library of NSW and the information and family law, presented Law and Justice Foundation of by a solicitor from Legal Aid and the NSW, and is jointly funded by manager of the local Family Relationships the Public Purpose Fund and Centre. the Library. LIAC services are provided through the Centre in the State Library, through the public library network across NSW and via the Find Legal Answers website. The Centre of Excellence Award recognises innovative and creative projects that increase community awareness of and access to LIAC. legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au 3 Community Legal Centres NSW Award The nominees are: Central Coast Community Redfern Legal Centre Legal Centre Unfair Dismissal Representation Central Coast Domestic Violence Scheme Legal Outreach Project Redfern Legal Centre’s (RLC) Unfair Central Coast Community Legal Centre Dismissal Representation Scheme is ran Central Coast Domestic Violence run in partnership with Clayton Utz. Presented by: Legal Outreach Project, a two-year The Scheme provides free advice and Ms Anna Cody project that aimed to provide women representation to low income employees and children who are affected by or at in unfair dismissal conciliation Chair risk of domestic violence with one-on- conferences. Clayton Utz solicitors, while Community Legal one legal advice, appropriate referrals working as secondees for RLC, provide Centres NSW and information on victims’ services, legal assistance to clients with their cases family law, tenancy and apprehended including representation at conciliation Sponsored by: domestic violence orders. Through the conferences and advice on settlement project, community legal education agreements. sessions were conducted to raise Community Legal awareness of the social impact and legal University of Newcastle Legal Centres NSW implications of domestic and family Centre violence. Law on the Beach — Taking the Law The Community Legal Hawkesbury Nepean to Young People Centres NSW Award this year Community Legal Centre University of Newcastle Law School is presented for a project in a developed an innovative approach to Domestic Violence & Renting community legal centre that providing free legal information and Hawkesbury Nepean CLC developed demonstrates outstanding advice to young people by initiating Domestic Violence & Renting, a user- commitment to improving Law on the Beach drop-in clinics. These friendly booklet that sets out step-by- access to justice in NSW, drop-in clinics are an outreach activity step the options available to victims run at a popular summer venue in order particularly for socially and of domestic violence who are renting to directly engage young people. economically disadvantaged and may want to leave the property people. or force the perpetrator to leave. The Women’s Legal Services NSW Community Legal Centres options available to victims are varied Safe in Our Place NSW provides secretariat and complex, and the booklet is a Women’s Legal Services Safe in Our tool that victims can use to effectively Place is a 12-month community support to NSW community navigate through the residential tenancy legal education project that provides legal centres working for the legislation. culturally appropriate services to public interest, particularly for disadvantaged and Kingsford Legal Centre (KLC) women from emerging culturally and linguistically diverse communities marginalised people and Education through Case Studies on family violence issues. Its focus is Kingsford Legal Centre’s Education communities. on the most disadvantaged areas of through Case Studies project aimed to NSW and regions with recently arrived www.clcnsw.org.au educate vulnerable, migrant women communities. The workshops are also about their rights at work through a an opportunity for participants to practical ‘workshop’ approach using case meet local domestic violence service studies drawn from their experience.
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