Aboriginal customary laws : background papers / Law Reform Commission of Western Australia
- Bib ID:
- 3673907
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Law Reform Commission of Western Australia
- Online Version:
- http://www.lrc.justice.wa.gov.au
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- Description:
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- Perth. W.A. : Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, 2006
- iv, 580 p. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1740350529
- Series:
- Project (Law Reform Commission of Western Australia) ; no. 94.
- Summary:
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This paper is intended to provide a broad summary of the approach of Australian courts to Aboriginal customary law in the areas of criminal law, civil law and family law. The primary focus of the paper is the development of the common law position on customary law in Western Australia.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The approach of Australian courts to Aboriginal customary law in the areas of criminal, civil and family law
- 2. Caught in the middle: Indigenous interpreters and customary law
- 3. The value of a benchmarking framework to the reduction of Indigenous disadvantage in the law and justice area
- 4. Family law and customary law
- 5. Aboriginal customary laws reference - an overview
- 6. Contemporary issues facing customary law and the general legal system: Roebourne - a case study - 7. Aboriginal people and justice services: plans, programs and delivery - 8. A new way of doing justice business? Community justice mechanisms and sustainable governance in Western Australia
- 9. Aboriginal customary law: can it be recognised?
- 10. International human rights law and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law
- 11. Customary law, human rights and international law: some conceptual issues
- 12. Indigenous cultural and intellectual property and customary law
- 13. Aboriginal women's interests in customary law recognition
- 14. Aboriginal customary law in the context of Western Australian constitutional law
- 15. Aboriginal people, criminal law and sentencing.
- Notes:
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- "January 2006".
- "The Background Papers were published individually by the Commission throughout 2003-2005 and are now reproduced in this volume."--P. iv.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Available online via The Law Reform Commission of Western Australia :http://www.lrc.justice.wa.gov.au
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Western Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- Western Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Western Australia
- Customary law -- Western Australia
- Human rights -- Australia
- Law - Legal system - Courts
- Law - Relation to Anglo Australian law
- Law enforcement - Community justice
- Law - Family law
- Law - International law
- Law - Indigenous
- Law enforcement - Criminal law and procedure
- Social behaviour - Social deviance - Punishment - Sentencing
- Yirramagadu / Roebourne (WA West Pilbara SF50-03)
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- Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, Perth, 2006
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- Until 2056 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- 2006
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