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Christopher Leo v Australia

Author / Contributor: Kris Gledhill
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Christopher Leo v Australia
   
Issue: Whether the regime for detention of those unfit to stand trial, including the length and conditions of detention, breached various rights in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006; the relevance of Aboriginal ethnicity; whether domestic remedies had been exhausted.
   
Court: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
   
Reference:   CRPD/C/22/D/17/2013
   
Neutral Citation:  
   
Judge(s): Ahmad Alsaif, Martin Mwesigwa Babu, Monthian Buntan, Imed Eddine Chaker, Amalia Eva Gamio Ríos, Jun Ishikawa, Samuel Njuguna Kabue, Kim Mi Yeon, Lászlo Gábor Lovászy, Robert George Martin, Dmitry Rebrov, Jonas Ruskus, Markus Schefer and Risnawati Utami.
   
Date: 43756