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- Title
FROM FACT FINDING TO TRUTH-TELLING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGING FUNCTIONS OF COMMONWEALTH ROYAL COMMISSIONS.
- Authors
TJANDRA, JONATHAN
- Abstract
Royal commissions are a tool for the executive government to inquire into matters of public importance. A new type of royal commission has emerged at the federal level as a result of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse -- the truth-telling inquiry. Several more royal commissions have been established with an explicit truth-telling function. Recent legislative changes to the Royal Commissions Act 1902 (Cth) allowed for private sessions, cementing a truth-telling function in the legislative framework. The function of a truth-telling royal commission is to aid people who have suffered damage or injury in a process of reconciliation or restorative justice. In this article, I analyse the historical development of the powers and functions of Commonwealth royal commissions in statute and at common law in light of a truth-telling function. If this trend continues, truth-telling royal commissions may develop into an important symbol of reconciliation and justice.
- Subjects
CHILD sexual abuse; RESTORATIVE justice; COMMON law; WOUNDS &; injuries; RECONCILIATION
- Publication
University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2022, Vol 45, Issue 1, p341
- ISSN
0313-0096
- Publication type
Article