Making the future happen: Law reform lessons from the Victorian Royal Commission

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dc.contributor.authorDonnelly, Mary
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-08T14:03:31Z
dc.date.available2024-05-06T13:28:28Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-08T14:03:31Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-15
dc.date.updated2024-05-06T12:28:30Zen
dc.description.abstractAs mental health law reform projects proliferate, especially in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), it becomes necessary to find ways to analyse these projects and to evaluate their successes and failures. This chapter argues that an important element in this respect relates to the process employed in developing law reform proposals which, it contends, has consequences for both the reform project’s legitimacy and its potential to effect meaningful change. Drawing on the approach of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, this chapter seeks to identify the components of an appropriate law reform process. To do this, it begins by exploring the differing impetuses for mental health law reform and identifying the variety of law reform processes which can be employed. It then examines how the Victorian Royal Commission approached its task. It concludes that the Royal Commission’s approach provides valuable lessons for other jurisdictions, both in its law reform proposals and in its process.en
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dc.identifier.citationDonnelly, M. (2023) 'Making the Future Happen: Law Reform Lessons from the Victorian Royal Commission', in Wilson, K., Maker, Y., Gooding,, P. and Walvisch, J. (eds) The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law, Abingdon: Routledge. isbn: 9781003350644, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003350644
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003350644
dc.identifier.endpage23
dc.identifier.isbn9781003350644
dc.identifier.isbn9781032396071
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15843
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofThe Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law
dc.rights© 2023, Selection and editorial matter, the editors; individual chapters, the contributors. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law on 15 September 2023, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781003350644. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMental health
dc.subjectLaw reform
dc.subjectCRPD
dc.subjectRoyal Commission
dc.titleMaking the future happen: Law reform lessons from the Victorian Royal Commission
dc.typeBook chapter
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