The ICJ Victoria condemns all forms of harassment in the workplace and supports the processes and recommendations of the Hon Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC in addressing allegations of sexual harassment by former High Court Justice the Hon Dyson
ICJ Victoria calls for alternative justice processes for Indigenous accused across Australia, and Gladue-style processes in the courts.
Read our media statement here: 2020-06-16 ICJV media release (Indigenous incarceration)
The International Commission of Jurists (Victoria) condemns the conduct of members of the Victoria Police for illicitly taking and publishing photographs of an individual in police custody presenting as gender diverse.
Article 2 of the UN Code of Conduct
The Victorian Bar and the International Commission of Jurists Victoria (ICJV) are calling for applications for the Pilot International Internship Program, from approximately 28 August 2019 to 27 September 2019.
The participant will be a lawyer from the Asia Pacific
The International Commission of Jurists (Victoria) supports the decision to establish a Royal Commission into the activities of Victoria Police and others which the High Court has justifiably described as reprehensible and atrocious.
The United Nation’s Basic Principles on the
The Leader of the Victorian Opposition and the Shadow Attorney-General have called for greater accountability and scrutiny of the sentencing decisions of our judges. Their proposal can be read here. It calls for what would in effect be ‘league tables’
ICJV is calling for volunteers to assist in an advocacy intervention in favour of a legislative defence for human trafficking victims compelled to crime in Australia. The position will be consistent with comparative defences in foreign jurisdictions and compliant with
ICJ Victoria are pleased to announce that the ICJ Bar Reader program is again running in 2018.
Click here for more information.
The recent suicide of respected Magistrate Stephen Myall shows the pressures to which members of the judiciary and legal community are exposed.
Such pressures were exacerbated in Stephen’s case when, after making a decision to grant a boy bail in
This weekend Australia hosts leaders from all the ASEAN countries except for the Philippines. The Australian government wants to focus on trade and security issues. ICJ (Victoria) supports the call by Human Rights Watch for Australia to use this opportunity
