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A common complaint about police misconduct is that they have mistreated or used excessive force against a person during an arrest or while a person was detained.  Police misconduct broadly means conduct of a police officer that:  is disgraceful, improper or unbecoming of a police officer  shows unfitness to be or continue as a police … Continue reading Complaints Against A Police Officer

It is very important for you to know if you are an employee or an independent contractor when it comes to realising your rights or fulfilling your obligations at your workplace.  For example, if you are an independent contractor you may have to arrange your own insurance including workers’ compensation, public liability and professional indemnity … Continue reading Employee or Independent Contractor?

Major updates of our ‘Laws Relating to Individual Decision Making’ chapter in the Queensland Law Handbook focus on the need to protect the human rights of a person with impaired decision-making capacity. All adults in Queensland are presumed to have capacity for decision making, and this presumption should not be affected by any personal characteristic … Continue reading Basic Human Rights are Applied to Uphold Freedom of Choice and Decision Making

On 1 December 2022, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) will be extended from residential aged care to include home care and flexible care delivered in a home or community setting.  This means that all providers of home care packages, short-term restorative care at home, Commonwealth Home Support Program, … Continue reading Protection of Older Australians from Abuse and Neglect Extended to Home Care and Flexible Care

Generally, people hold some knowledge about the meaning and application of copyright and what copyright protects. Moral rights, on the other hand, are much less talked about and you might be hard pressed to find a good explanation or definition of those rights.  Typically, moral rights are personal rights that belong to the creator or … Continue reading What Are Moral Rights?

A child, being a person under 18 years of age, has an inherent right to be protected from harm. A child’s family is foremost responsible for the child’s upbringing, protection and development. If a child does not have a parent who is able and willing to offer that protection, the state will take on the … Continue reading Child Protection and the Role of Child Safety

On the international stage, Australia is a signatory to a number of international agreements that include provisions that everyone is entitled to be informed promptly and comprehensively about the nature and cause of the charge against the person in a language that they understand (Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights).  … Continue reading A Fair Hearing – the Right to an Interpreter during Court Proceedings

While the year 2022 draws to a close, we look back at some of the statistics gathered throughout the last financial year—and what a busy, but simultaneously rewarding, time it was.  Our Client Services team managed to answer 24 353 calls, which equates to an average of 104 calls per day, by clients not always … Continue reading What A Busy Year It Was At Caxton

At all times at Caxton we focus on promoting and protecting our clients’ human rights by overcoming the barriers they experience in accessing justice.  Our human-rights work permeated through all of the programs in the 2021–2022 financial year. For the first time, however, we had the benefit of the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) and … Continue reading Making a Difference

Caxton Legal Centre again relied on the invaluable and generous contribution of its loyal volunteers and their incredible commitment to social justice during this last financial year. Without our 160+ volunteer lawyers and law students, we would not have been able to make a difference to the lives of thousands of people who contacted us … Continue reading Volunteering At Its Best