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Legal Disabilities
Disability is a restriction or loss of functioning that affects 18% of the Australian population. This can have disastrous consequences on a person's ability to then access legal remedies. The legal system is highly verbal and therefore largely inaccessible to people who experience difficulties with knowledge processing and communicating. The existence of bias and discrimination also acts as a barrier for many people with disability attempting to access the legal system.
Disabilities can be grouped as:
• Sensory (eg. Blindness, deafness etc)
• Physical (eg. Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, Quadriplegia)
• Learning (eg. Attention Deficit Hypoactivity Disorder)
• Intellectual
• Behavioural
• Psychiatric (eg. Bipolar Affective Disorder, Schizophrenia)
• Acquired Brain Damage and Dementia
• Medical conditions (eg. Epilepsy, AIDS)
• Multiple (eg. Combinations of the above)
Having a disability is not necessarily a lack of legal capacity to give instructions.
We can help with:
• Taking the time and being patient, while the person with the disability communicates.
• Interviewing with other people present.
• Preparation of documentation - eg. Wills and Enduring Powers of Attorney in circumstances of oncoming dementia.
Legal Disabilities
Disability is a restriction or loss of functioning that affects 18% of the Australian population. This can have disastrous consequences on a person's ability to then access legal remedies. The legal system is highly verbal and therefore largely inaccessible to people who experience difficulties with knowledge processing and communicating. The existence of bias and discrimination also acts as a barrier for many people with disability attempting to access the legal system.
Disabilities can be grouped as:
• Sensory (eg. Blindness, deafness etc)
• Physical (eg. Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, Quadriplegia)
• Learning (eg. Attention Deficit Hypoactivity Disorder)
• Intellectual
• Behavioural
• Psychiatric (eg. Bipolar Affective Disorder, Schizophrenia)
• Acquired Brain Damage and Dementia
• Medical conditions (eg. Epilepsy, AIDS)
• Multiple (eg. Combinations of the above)
Having a disability is not necessarily a lack of legal capacity to give instructions.
We can help with:
• Taking the time and being patient, while the person with the disability communicates.
• Interviewing with other people present.
• Preparation of documentation - eg. Wills and Enduring Powers of Attorney in circumstances of oncoming dementia. |
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