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2014 achlr public lecture dr ian freckelton sc human rights in mental health laws
Professor Ian Freckelton QC is a member of the Victorian Bar Association, the Tasmanian Bar Association and the Northern Territory Bar Association in Australia. He is a Professorial Fellow in Law and Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Monash University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology.
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- 2014 achlr public lecture dr ian freckelton sc human rights in mental health laws
- Prof ian freckelton kris gledhill session 7 preventive detention conf 28 july 2012
- Prominent cases
- Publications
- Scholarly journals
- References
Prof ian freckelton kris gledhill session 7 preventive detention conf 28 july 2012
Prominent cases
In 2012 he represented Northern Territory Police in the Briscoe Inquest in the Coroners Court in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia which investigated the death of an indigenous man in police custody.
He was counsel assisting the coroner Iain West in the David Wilson Inquest (1998–2012) at the Coroners Court of Victoria. concerning the kidnapping and murder of Australian David Wilson in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in 1994 and the responsibility of the Australian Government for not paying ransom to the Khmer Rouge. Wilson was murdered along with British national Mark Slater and French national Jean-Michel Braquet. The murders received Australian and international media attention for almost two decades.
In the Supreme Court of Victoria Ian Freckelton represented the parents of a seven-year-old girl who died in an accident, to prevent an autopsy that would have been distressing to the parents.
He represented four police members in the Coroners Court of Victoria at the Tyler Cassidy Inquest (2010–2011). Tyler Cassidy, aged 15, was shot dead by police. The circumstances of the case raised questions about Tyler Cassidy's intentions to be shot by police and the proportionality of the police response.
Ian Freckelton represented drug trafficker Tony Mokbel in the Federal Court of Australia in his appeal against an extradition order from Greece to Australia. Ian Freckelton and Frank Costigan were Counsel for the Department of Community Services Victoria in the controversial Children of God case. The case concerned 81 child protection applications relating to children in New South Wales and Victoria who were taken from their parents by social workers and police in a raid in 1992 on the suspicion that the children were in immediate danger of abuse if they remained with the fundamentalist Christian group.
He has also appeared for the Chiropractic Board of Australia against Dr Malcolm Hooper, a registered health practitioner who offered oxygen treatment to a patient with cerebral palsy. He also appeared for the Secretary to the Department of Planning and Community Development in a case which resulted in the first order in Australia removing an elected local government representative from office for not being of good character.
Ian Freckelton also appeared for forensic witness Robert Barnes in the Eastman Inquiry into the conviction of David Harold Eastman for the murder of Colin Stanley Winchester.
Publications
Ian Freckelton's publications include:
Scholarly journals
Freckelton founded the Journal of Law and Medicine in 1993, established the journal of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law in 1994 and remains the editor of both journals.