There is a risk that information held by legal practices with interdisciplinary programs could be subpoenaed and used against their clients.
In 2016 CIJ was approached by the Human Rights Commission to conduct a project exploring and evaluating the impact that a federal Charter of Human Rights would have had on the outcomes of significant Australian cases and laws.
The history of youth justice in Australia over the last 200 years or so is characterised by the failure of punitive detention to impact on recidivism.
