Issues Paper - Development of a Central Bond Holding Scheme
Letter to Director Legal Policy, Department of Attorney-General and Justice:
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Read moreLetter to Chief Executive Officer Australian Red Cross dated 8 April 2015:
INTERATIONAL TREATY AGAINST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Law Society Northern Territory (Society) is writing to acknowledge and express its support for your work building support for an international treaty that would make the use of nuclear weapons illegal under international law.
Read moreLetter sent to Master Luppino Supreme Court of the Northern Territory:
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory Practice Direction 1 of 2015
I refer to the correspondence between the Master"™s Chambers, Dylan Walters and I on 6 and 7 January 2015 concerning Supreme Court Practice Direction 1 of 2015 dated 2 January 2015 ("PD1/15").
Read moreLetter sent to Legal Practitioners' Admissions Board dated 30 March 2015:
Read moreLetter sent to Minister Styles on 30 March 2015:
Read moreLAW SOCIETY NORTHERN TERRITORY
Read moreLaw Society Northern Territory ("Society") notes the first and second reading of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2015 ("Bill") in the Legislative Assembly on 26 February 2015.
Read moreThe Society has relocated to the following address:
Read moreLetter to the Legal Services Council:
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Read moreLetter to Hon. George Brandis, Commonwealth Attorney-General:
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Read moreLetter to the Minister for Health
The Society remains concerned that the efficacy of AMT, in the treatment of alcohol addiction, remains to this date un-tested and un-proven. It is likely that by virtue of incarceration under AMT there is an opportunity for clinicians to address and manage other chronic health conditions resulting in benefit to the subjects. However, it has not established that these benefits cannot be achieved by other less restrictive means. Whilst positive health outcomes are to be applauded the Society also calls for an independent assessment of the scheme?s effectiveness to ensure that the significant cost of AMT and the significant incursion on the rights and liberties of Territorians is warranted and effective for treating alcohol addiction.
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