The NJP’s latest recruits have been appointed for one year as part of the NJP First Nations Youth and Health Justice Lawyer Traineeship Program, a program designed to help address the chronic shortage of Indigenous health and youth justice law practitioners within First Nations communities.
The two new Indigenous trainee lawyers – Lauren Davies and Megan Krakouer – have recently commenced their 12-month traineeship with NJP.
Ms Davies is a member of the Gomeroi and Ngarabal nation and is based in Sydney.
She has previously worked in criminal law at Shopfront Youth Legal Centre, Macquarie University as well as in the police practice team at Redfern Legal Centre along her depth of experience and understanding around police, prisons and youth services.
NJP said that a recent Law and Justice Foundation survey, estimated 50,000 First Nations people are in need of health justice services around Australia and as can be seen from recent events there is an extensive need in the area of youth justice and police accountability also.
“This training program is specifically designed to increase the capacity of First Nations communities to undertake human rights work, with a focus on health, police, prisons and youth services,” NJP told Lawyers Weekly.
Read the full article here (Lawyers Weekly, 7 June 2020)
