1994 Chief Justice Gender Bias Report

In the early 1990s, the then Chief Justice of Western Australia, Chief Justice Malcolm, established a Gender Bias Taskforce. The Taskforce delivered a report in 1994 which suggested numerous ways to enhance women’s participation and promotion in the legal profession in Western Australia and to combat gender bias in the law

• Introduction, terms of reference etc
• Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Women’s access to justice and court environment
• Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Career Paths for Women in Legal Profession
• Chapter 3 Chapter 3 appointment of judiciary
• Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Aboriginal women and the law
• Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Victims of crime
• Chapters 6 & 6A Chapter 6 & 6A Restraining orders
• Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Education
• Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Criminal laws which discriminate
• Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Punishment of women

We thank the Honourable C Christian Porter MLA, Attorney General, and the Honourable Justice W Martin, Chief Justice of Western Australia, for permitting us to make the report publicly available on our website.

Following on from the work done in the 1994 Report, the following further research was done

• 1997 Progress Report on the Gender Bias Taskforce Report (compiled by the Women’s Policy Development Office in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice)

• • Progress Report pages 1-30
  • Progress Report pages 31-64

• Report on the Retention of Legal Practioners: March 1999 (a joint initiative of Women Lawyers of WA and the Law Society of WA).
• 2014 Gender Bias Taskforce Review Report