Individuals with cognitive disabilities in Australia are faced with limited options and often worse outcomes in the courts compared to abled persons. Reasons why include the length of the legal process, unsatisfactory medical care, and lack of access to treatment.

Unfair Treatment of People with Cognitive Disabilities in Australia's Legal System

Laws and policies created to protect the rights of disabled individuals in Australia. 

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Laws and policies created by governments and government agencies in order to protect the rights of disabled individuals. 

Disability Rights Legislation 

Child nodes contain laws enacted in Australia.

Australian Laws

These include a variety of disabilities that affect cognitive/intellectual ability and functioning.

Cognitive/Intellectual disabilities

McCausland, R., Reeve, R., & Gooding, P. (2019). The economic case for improving legal outcomes for accused persons with cognitive disability: an Australian study. International Journal of Law in Context, 15(4), 367-389.

Legal Outcomes for Accused Persons with Cognitive Disability in Australia

Laws and policies created to protect the rights of disabled individuals in the United States.

Disability Rights Legislation in the United States

Disability Rights Legislation in Australia

Practices, rules, or laws that effect one or more protected groups disproportionately. There need not be express intent to discriminate against a protected class in order to be considered a desperate impact.

Disparate Impact

Organizations and agencies at the United States federal and state level that are tasked with protecting disability rights. 

United States Government Groups Focused on Disability Rights

In 1995, the Disability Discrimination Act was enacted with a purpose of outlawing discrimination against people with disabilities. 

Disability Rights Legislation in the United Kingdom

Disability legislation is making a change towards policies more focused on individual human rights. With the institution of the PAIPDI, the country, like many other European countries in current times, isworking towards a renewed and improved understanding of disabilities with the goal of more just practices.

Disability Policy in Portugal 

- Intellectual Disability (ID)
- General Learning Disability
- Acquired brain injuries
- Neurodegenerative diseases

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