doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000016416

Article type: Original Research

PUBLISHED 1 January 1979

Volume 4 Issue 4

Legal Aid for Children: Some Reflections

Brian Lucas

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Brian Lucas

CITATION: Lucas B. (1979). Legal Aid for Children: Some Reflections . Children Australia, 4(4), 256. doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000016416

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Abstract

In its Second Main Report, Law and Poverty in Australia, the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty expressed the view that “legal representation for children appearing before the children's court, whether in the criminal or protective jurisdiction, is necessary if justice is to be done.”

This view coincides with the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in In re Gault. It has been said that this decision “unleashed a frontal assault on the juvenile court system.” It confirmed that juveniles were entitled to “due process” and the same protection which the Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights afforded to adults.

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