Criminal Law and Human Rights

The Law Council's Criminal Law and Human Rights work involves advocacy and policy development concerning national criminal law issues and both national and international human rights issues.

Criminal law issues often involve a significant human rights element, for example, the existence of the death penalty for criminal offences is a breach of the fundamental human right to life, as well as a number of other recognized international human rights.

Other criminal law issues may be of a more procedural nature, such as the development and implementation of a Model Criminal Code in each jurisdiction in Australia.

In this section

Human Rights

Death Penalty

Criminal Law and Procedure

Anti-Terror Laws

General Rule of Law Issues