Unfitness to Plead and Indefinite Detention of Persons With Cognitive Impairments: Addressing the Legal Barriers and Creating Appropriate Alternative Supports in the Community

Human Rights and Unfitness to Plead: The Demands of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Piers Gooding, Louis Andrews, Bernadette McSherry

2017-09-01

Findings of unfitness to plead can result in individuals with cognitive disabilities losing access to procedural safeguards in the..

Supporting Accused Persons with Cognitive Disabilities to Participate in Criminal Proceedings in Australia: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Unfitness to Stand Trial Laws

P Gooding, Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Sarah Mercer, Bernadette McSherry

2017-01-01

In the 10 years since Australia has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the ..

Unfitness to stand trial and the indefinite detention of persons with cognitive disabilities in Australia: Human rights challenges and proposals for change

P Gooding, A Arstein-Kerslake, L Andrews, B McSherry

2017-01-01

Adverse consequences facing accused persons found unfit to stand trial in Australia have been well-publicised in recent years. Tho..

Unfitness to Plead and Indefinite Detention of People with Cognitive Disabilities in Australia

A ARSTEIN-KERSLAKE

2016-04-29

Testimony at the Australia Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs References Committee, Inquiry into the indefinite detent..

Laws on unfitness to stand trial and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Comparing reform in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia

P Gooding, C O'Mahony

2016-03-01

The laws on unfitness to stand in criminal trials have not been examined in great detail by scholars since the coming into force o..

Unfitness to Stand Trial: The Indefinite Detention of Persons with Cognitive Disabilities in Australia and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

P GOODING, S Mercer, E Baldry, A Arstein-Kerslake

2016-01-01