Macquarie University Social Justice Clinic partner, the National Justice Project (NJP), has been selected as a finalist for the Law Award category of the 2018 Human Rights Awards.
The NJP is a not-for-profit legal service that provides access to justice in Indigenous and Pacific Islander communities, including people in immigration facilities. Over the past year, NJP has helped several children detained on Nauru be brought to Australia for medical care.
NJP has also acted for families of Indigenous people who have died in custody. Macquarie Law School is proud to support the work of the NJP. The Social Justice Clinic students work on campus under the supervision of the NJP’s principal lawyer, Honourary Professor George Newhouse, and Macquarie Law School academic, Dr Daniel Ghezelbash, who is also a Senior Counsel at the NJP.
More about this story can be viewed at the Australian Human Rights Commission website.