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Kayleen Beshara, has had a wide ranging career. She has worked in areas relevant to the rights and protection of women and children, and has had considerable experience in bringing together like-minded people to work together for the protection of those vulnerable members of our community. She is passionate about human rights, and has worked with various Non Government Organisations and others, including Australian Federal Police/ACCCE, World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, the Alannah & Madeline Foundation and the Women’s Information and Referral Exchange. Kayleen has been associated with CRI for many years as administrative assistant to Sally Nicholes.
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Qualifications: BA, LLB
Experience and expertise: Sue is currently the Director of Clinical Legal Education and Professor of Clinical Practice in the Law Faculty, La Trobe University. Previously she was Manager of Education and Stakeholder Engagement, Neighbourhood Justice Centre, Melbourne, and former Director of the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University.
Special responsibilities: As a Board member of CRI Sue has had extensive involvement with its Cambodian program and managed the development of the Strategic Plan for the Implementation of the Juvenile Justice Law from 2016-18 and it's actual implementation since that time to date.
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Qualifications: BA, LLB
Experience and expertise: Paul was appointed a Magistrate in August 1988 after 10 years working as a barrister and solicitor. From 2001 to 2006 he served as the State Coordinating Magistrate, a Deputy Chief Magistrate and the Supervising Magistrate for Koori Courts. He was appointed a Judge of the County Court in April 2006 and President of the Children’s Court of Victoria in May 2006. In May 2013, he returned to the County Court from the Children’s Court. He was the Judge in Charge of the County Koori Court from early 2016 until his retirement in May 2019 and is currently the Alternate Chair of the Youth Parole Board.
Special responsibilities: Advice and consultation
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Title: Director
Qualifications: B.Com, LL.B, Post Grad Dip (Corporations and Securities Law)
Experience and expertise: John is a leading transactional lawyer with more than 25 years' experience. He focuses on negotiated and unregulated mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity including due diligence (both vendor and buy-side), acquisitions and sales of shares and assets, private equity (including MBO/MBIs), joint ventures (incorporated, partnerships and unit trusts), structures and restructures and regulatory issues. He is a Senior Partner at K&L Gates and has been with the firms (and its legacy firms) for over 25 years. John joined the Children’s Rights International Board in 2018.
Special responsibilities: Advice and consultation
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Title: Director
Qualifications: LLB
Experience and expertise: Jennifer has held a number of judicial appointments over the last 27 years, including Magistrate, Deputy Chief Magistrate, the inaugural President of the Children’s Court of Victoria, Judge of the County Court of Victoria, the first female State Coroner of Victoria. In January 2013, Justice Coate was appointed a judge of the Family Court of Australia and thereafter released onto the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, where she served as one of six Commissioners for the five years of that Royal Commission. In January 2019, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia. Jennifer joined the Children’s Rights International Board in 2018.
Special responsibilities: Advice and consultation
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Dr Garry Warne AM MBBS FRACP recently retired from the medical staff of the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne where for 19 years he was Director of Endocrinology and Diabetes and for 13 years, the Director of Royal Children’s Hospital International. In the latter role, he directed a number of major health service capacity-building projects in Vietnam and Indonesia, and initiated a project in Vietnam to promote the inter-sectoral development of child protection policies and resources.
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