Current Campaigns

Media release Wednesday May 16, 2018As with Saeed Dezfouli, the callous disrespect exposed in Lismore Hospital to dying Miriam Merten will continue. Nothing in Health’s Implementation Plan will change the culture. There will be no ongoing objective accountability, no removal of legislative protections such as s.195 MH Act, no computers and phones in seclusion areas, no alternatives to forced treatment, and […]

SAEED POWDER CASE ENDED Saeed Dezfouli was accused of sending 17 envelopes containing a letter and white powder to politicians, authorities and media organisations including the Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Channel 7 and SBS on January 26, 2019. This was a protest for being held indefinitely, and treated unfairly by Justice Health.          

1958 Saeed Dezfouli born in Iran.  1983 Migrated to Australia. Immediately began studying a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in political sciences.  1986 Saeed became a citizen of Australia, and began working as a court interpreter for the Ethnic Affairs Commission NSW, 2001 Throughout 2001, Saeed received death threats. Decided to take action, and thus warned

Update – 20/12/2013: Supreme Court & High Court Appeals Two cases on consecutive days about Saeed! The Supreme Court looked at the legal power over the hospital, and the High Court looked at the same issue from an identical challenge almost exactly 3 years before. In the Supreme Court, Justice Lindsay listened to arguments all

The power of the Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT) to control the treatment of patients by the hospital was considered for the first time at the hearing about Saeed Dezfouli held on the 20th September 2013. Judicial member Helen Morgan asked Saeed’s lawyer: “You say the Tribunal has that power?”[1] After hearing all arguments the Tribunal

Saeed’s case is now before the High Court of Australia, in the latest thrust to expose the structural abuse of people in mental hospitals, and the lack of accountability to standards of respect. The High Court has to consider whether there is a valid Public Interest to protect individuals like Saeed who come under the

Justice Action has a case around “A”, before the Mental Health Review Tribunal. It will define the rights of people and their carers to challenge their treatment in mental hospitals. Although the language of government responses to mental health support is changing rapidly to the “person-centred approach of recovery”, the reality on the ground is still authoritarian with

Due to a request from the Mental Health Review Tribunal, the Justice Action team was forced to remove the names of persons related to the proceedings. Our plaintiff’s name has been replaced with ‘A’. This occurs despite the clear wishes of A to have his name publicised and the basic entitlement to freely and publicly