Notes:
A regular column on advocacy which is to represent the interests of members and the wider community, for which the Law Institute actively seeks to influence policy and legislation through lobbying and submissions to government, the courts and other bodies. The column has a LIV and the media column, which lists all instances of note in the media for the preceeding months > Some entries in this months column include:- ; Proposed bankruptcy legislation - submission ; Changes to the Marriage Act - submission ; Labor's plan to reform legal aid - funding model and guidelines for commonwealth legal aid ; Bodies corporate submission ; Valuation of Land Act submission ; Rights of the child - submission ; David Hicks - letter to Prime Minister John Howard ; Legal service for indigenous Australians - letter to Federal Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs Amanda Vanstone ; Electronic conveyancing - working party ; Meeting with Attorney-General - John Cain, LIV CEO - Legal Practice Act review, indexation of legal aid funding and tort law reform ; Domestic Building Contracts Act - review - develop a submission ; Court resources - submission to government for funding, acting judges and abolition of judges' pension's ; Children and Young Person's Commission - lobbying for a Commissioner ; Driver and rider fatigue in Queensland - President, Mr C Dale letter to Queensland Parliamentary Travelsafe Committee - submission culpable and dangerous driving