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Sessions Schedule
| Title: | Ensuring inclusive and child-friendly access to justice for all children in Oceania | |||||||
| Moderator: | Nessa Lynch | Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington | Topics: – Positive practices of youth courts to ensure equal and child-friendly access to justice for children. – Responses to Indigenous children who offend. – Minimum age of criminal responsibility – Legislative reform efforts across the region to ensure non-discriminatory and inclusive justice systems for children, among others. | |||||
Speakers: | John Walker | Principal Youth Court Judge, New Zealand | ||||||
| Vui Clarence Nelson | Justice, Supreme Court of Samoa and Member, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child | |||||||
| Ella Wairiu | Former Child Protection Portfolio Lead, Save the Children Solomon Islands | |||||||
| Anne Hollonds | National Children’s Commissioner, Australia | |||||||
| Cheryl Axleby | Co-Chair, Change the Record | |||||||
Block A
Ocea Workshop A1
| Title | Brain Injury & Children in contact with the law | |
| Organiser | Prof. Huw Williams, University of Exeter | |
| Type | Panel Discussion | |
| Language | English | |
| Description | Download | |
| Video | View Video | |