Research governance, including research ethics committees and data protection legislation, is invested in protecting the individual rights of participants in social care and health research. Increasingly funders expect evidence of outcomes that engage with 'service users', making research...

Specific problems relating to domestic violence are outlined for children, pregnant women, the elderly, indigenous people and people of non-English speaking background. Individual case studies illustrate the effects of domestic violence on a nine week old baby, an elderly person, an indigenous...

In this article, we identify and discuss individual and organisational factors which contribute to bully victims' or targets' decisions about whether or not to voice complaints about workplace bullying in Australian workplaces. This article examines the costs of voice and silence in workplace...

In this article, we look at how procedural fairness in workplace investigations into allegations of workplace misconduct may be problematic. Through an analysis of some case law and the survey findings from five experienced investigators, we examine how the process can be flawed by a lack of...

In some occupations, employers impose gendered appearance requirements on their employees. In this paper we present the findings of a small sample of Australian service industry workers subject to such requirements. We analyse these empirical findings to evaluate competing proposals in the...

This article seeks to draw conclusions about the potential impact of the Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014 (Vic). We do so by considering whether defensive homicide served as a safety net in the 2014 case of Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic) v Williams. The article...

When we each look at anything or anybody, say violence against women, our perceptions are the outcome of our own individual upbringing and our experiences which for most, are to some degree, weighted heavily by the wider cultural context of dominants' knowledge and language. Credibility and...

This paper examines the historical antecedents and political processes behind the Sexual and Violent Offences Legislation Amendment Act 2008 (ACT). The process by which this Act came to be provides a fascinating case study of the importance of individuals in institutional law reform. This Act...

In this paper we examine the variables that appear to impact the outcome of sexual harassment complaints. We have analysed 68 sexual harassment matters heard across Australia over the six year period between 2005 to 2010. In doing so, we have ascertained the apparent differences between the...

This paper discusses the theory behind legal indeterminacy, the need for it in Australian law, and how it can affect the implementation of legislative reform. A sample of sexual assault law reform provisions that were enacted to better protect victim witness from retrauma are deconstructed to...