Evaluation NSW Legal Aid Hearing Support Pilot Project

Project Member(s): Wangmann, J., Kaye, M.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Legal Aid Commission of NSW (Legal Aid NSW Partnership Fund)
Legal Aid Commission of NSW (Legal Aid NSW Partnership Fund)

Start year: 2022

Summary: Since their inception Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Schemes have provided support at court for women seeking ADVOs and assocaiedt criminal charges. Their ability to provide support at a defended hearing has been very limited.

Publications:

Wangmann, J, Kaye, M & Thomas, K UTS 2024, Evaluation of the WDVCAS Hearing Support Pilot, Sydney.

FOR Codes: Justice and the law, Criminal law, Law and society and socio-legal research, Access to justice

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.