Between October 2005 and February 2008 the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs conducted an inquiry into the use of strict and absolute liability offences in the ACT.

This 2010 report provides an update on the process.

The ACT Ambulance Service (ACTAS) has to confront challenges of ever increasing numbers of cases plus the resourcing implications of having sufficient capacity to give a timely response.  Every Australian Ambulance service has faced similar challenges to ACTAS in the last decade, linked to growth in demand for services and its impacts on emergency response performance. These demand pressures can confidently be expected to continue as the population grows and ages and as the health system also continues to respond and change.

Independent consultant and former Tasmanian ambulance service chief, Grant Lennox, was commissioned to report on options for a…

In September 2009 the Chief Justice and the Attorney General both expressed a desire for a working group to be established to consider issues affecting the court’s ability to complete in a timely way the high volume of cases currently coming before it. 

In the working group's report it concludes that the only realistic solutions to enabling the Supreme Court to deal with its workload were to either reduce substantially how much work comes to the Supreme Court, or to increase judicial resources in the Supreme Court.  For the court as currently configured, the single most useful solution to address current backlogs and reduce…

The report contains information about our key activities and initiatives, annual financial statements, a report on performance, various compliance reports and background information on the department's operations.

The report contains information about our key activities and initiatives, annual financial statements, a report on performance, various compliance reports and background information on the department's operations.

These guidelines provide information about the Human Rights Act. They are aimed at policy and legal advisers and public sector managers responsible for advising government on the development of policy and law.

This paper provides a plain English explanation to the ACT Human Rights Act 2004.

This paper is a short overview of the major features of the ACT Human Rights Act 2004.

Hansard copy of the closing speech given by Simon Corbell, MLA on 2 March 2004.

Hansrad extract of the presentation speech by Simon Corbell, MLA on 18 November 2003.