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We wish you a 
 
HAPPY
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S
DAY

 
SPECIAL THANK YOU

To the TAFE NSW
Student Association


A special group of volunteers at TAFE campuses across Sydney held fundraising activities to mark International Women's Day. The students sold cupcakes and flowers to raise money for the
WLS NSW Foundation. Proceeds are gratefully received.

Brain Food
 

This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases. By re-imagining original legal decisions through a feminist lens, the collection explores the possibilities, limits and implications of feminist approaches to legal decision-making. 

Each case is accompanied by a brief commentary that places it in legal and historical context and explains what the feminist rewriting does differently to the original case. The cases not only cover topics of long-standing interest to feminist scholars such as family law, sexual offences and discrimination law, but also areas which have had less attention, including Indigenous sovereignty, constitutional law, immigration, taxation and environmental law. 

The collection contributes a distinctly Australian perspective to the growing international literature investigating the role of feminist legal theory in judicial decision-making.




 

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY - Our Next Event:

Technology-Facilitated
Stalking and Abuse

Advances in technology have led to a rapid rise in technology-assisted domestic violence and abuse. Through the use of the internet, social media, mobile devices, texting, email, and surveillance devices, domestic violence perpetrators have increasing access to new methods and tools to stalk, harass and abuse their victims.

In turn, victims of such abuse feel tethered to their abusive partners by technology, unable to escape.
Women’s Legal Services NSW is working with Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (‘DVRCV’) and WESNET on a national project to develop a specific Australian-wide range of resources to assist victims of technology-assisted domestic violence.
 
For this project, WLS NSW will develop a set of legal guides that will look at the legal implications of using technology to perpetrate domestic violence and the protections that the existing legal framework offers to those experiencing such abuse. These guides will be developed for each State and Territory and will be made available on a national website built specifically for this project in order to provide a comprehensive Australian online resource. This website will be launched in mid-2015.


Special Guest Speaker:
Dr Nicola Henry
Senior Lecturer, Legal Studies,
Dept of Politics, Philosophy & Legal Studies, La Trobe University
Where: Gilbert and Tobin, 2 Park Street, Sydney CBD
When: Friday 24 April 2015, 3.30 - 5.30pm

Cost: $25 including afternoon tea

Please RSVP here

'Women and Family Law'
New eBook Version Released

Don't leave home without it!
 
Now you can read it wherever you are...
 
Women and Family Law eBook edition will launch on Friday 5th March, in commemoration of International Women's Day.
 
This vital resource, now in its 10th edition, provides an easy to navigate guide to separation, divorce, children, property and protection against violence. It is downloadable free of charge from the Apple Store or the Amazon Kindle store.
 
It is also available from the State Library of NSW Legal Information Access Centre and downloadable from our website here
PLEASE SUPPORT THE FOUNDATION

The Foundation was established to support the work of WLS NSW
in areas where we cannot rely on public funding.

We are now using a 'Give Now' account to manage online donations.

We urge you to support our work either through a regular monthly donation or a one-off gift.


 Visit the WLS NSW Give Now page for more information.
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