Easteal, P (Editor) and expert legal contributors
An important milestone in the development of legal practice in Australia.
The first of its kind, Women and the Law in Australia provides practical advice on dealing with issues in the practice of law that are of specific importance to women. It is intended not just to highlight the problems that women experience with the legal system as defendants, complainants, victims, witnesses and practitioners but also to identify pragmatic steps for solicitors, barristers and policy-makers. The text is a compilation of contributions, with all contributors experts in their area of law, who come from legal practice, academia or government; it explores the cultural and legal context of each topic.
1. Setting the Stage: The 'Iceberg' Jigsaw Puzzle
2. Women and ADR
3. Women and Business Law: Sole Traders and Partnerships
4. Women and Company Law
5. (Consumer) Contracts
6. Criminal Law: Rape
7. Women and Criminal Defences to Homicide
8. Discrimination Law
9. Domestic Violence
10. The Evidential Process and the Complainant
11. Family Law
12. Gender and Intellectual Property
13. Intersectionality: Indigenous Women
14. Intersectionality: Disabled Women
15. Lesbians, Same-Sex Attracted Women and the Law
16. Women and Labour Law
17. Medical and Tort Injuries Against Pregnant Women
18. Women and Migration Law
19. Women in Practice
20. Women in the Australian Judiciary
21. Women and Prison
22. Public Law
23. Women and Social Security/Transfer Payments Law
24. Tax
25. Women and Trusts
26. Tips: The Iceberg and Global Warming Metaphor
