Child Abuse — The Legal Framework

Richard Chisolm

* Richard Chisolm is senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. In 1970 he became the first President of Action for Children and in 1972 was a foundation member and first Treasurer of the N.S.W. Aboriginal Legal Service. His main teaching subject is Family Law and a special research interest is Children and the law. He is the author of Understanding Law (Butterworths 1974) (with Garth Nettheim).