Some of the many highlights of this speech, delivered at the 2012 World Congress on Guardianship:
"An outrage about the wrongs committed by a majority onto a minority..."
"Guardianship is not only inappropriate in itself but it often facilitates the long-term or life-long segregation of people with disabilities into institutions...."
"Guardianship, I submit, increases the risk of exploitation, violence and abuse instead of preventing it..."
"And guardianship, in my submission, rips families apart and plays a role in our legal frameworks which goes completely against celebrating the diversity of humanity...."
Source:
Oliver Lewis - Litigation and the Right to Legal Capacity
See Also:
Mental Disability Advocacy Center
Note: The 2nd World Congress on Adult Guardianship was held in Australia, so we thought it prudent to include a case of guardianship abuse from Australia in this post:
Bendigo Bank (Christine Frankham) This Will Not Go Away
(This is an overwhelming story of the Watts family's ongoing fight to seek justice with supporting evidence against a Bendigo Bank Manager (Christine Frankham) who used her position and Trust to take advantage of their elderly mother Yolanda Hutton.)
See Also:
BendigoBanksters on Facebook
Attorney General Greg Smith NSW Minster of Justice and State Member for Epping, who is also responsible for the NSW Trustee and Guardian, with its off shoot the NSW Guardianship Tribunal.
