Record of the 23^rd APCCA

Appendix O

Curriculum Vitae of APCCA Rapporteur – Dr Neil Morgan

Dr Neil Morgan holds a First Class Honours degree in Law from Oxford University, a Masters degree in Criminology from Sheffield University and a PhD (with Distinction) from the University of Western Australia.  He was a lecturer in the newly established Law School at the University of Essex from 1980 to 1985 and a lecturer in the Law Faculty at the National University of Singapore from 1985 to 1988.  He then moved to the Law School at the University of Western Australia in Perth and was a senior lecturer there for 10 years, also winning Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Research Supervision awards.  Since 1998, he has been Director of Studies at the Crime Research Centre at the University of Western Australia, where he has established Masters and Graduate Diploma courses in Criminal Justice.  He has been a member of the Parole Board of Western Australia since 1993 and was a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal from 1995 to 1997.

Neil has published widely in the fields of criminal law, sentencing and punishment, with major publications in Australia, England and Singapore.  He is regularly invited to present seminars to conferences and to the Australian judiciary and has been the Co-Rapporteur for the Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators since 1997.  He has also been a consultant researcher / writer on numerous projects, including official reviews of violence restraining orders, sentencing, parole and the enforcement of non-custodial sentences.  In 2003, he was a specialist consultant for the Inspector of Custodial Services’ inspection of Western Australia’s first private prison.  He is currently Co-Director of Research for the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia’s project on Aboriginal Customary Law and is undertaking a major consultancy for the Equal Opportunity Commission of Victoria on ‘systemic bias’ as a factor in Aboriginal over-representation in the justice system.

Curriculum Vitae of APCCA Co-rapporteur – Mrs Irene Morgan

Irene Morgan graduated with an Upper Second Class Honours degree in Law from the University of Essex (England) and a Masters degree in Law from the University of Western Australia.  Between 1985 and 1988, she worked for the United Nations Vietnamese Refugee Camp in Singapore, and also lectured in Family Law for the University of London External Law degree.  In 1989, she began lecturing at the Law School at the University of Western Australia in Perth, and was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998.  In 1998, she was a founding member of the College of Law at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle, and left in 2000 to take up a position as a Research Fellow at the Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia.

Irene now works full-time as a Legal Research Officer at the Parole Board and the Mentally Impaired Defendants Review Board of Western Australia.  She provides legal advice and opinions to the Boards and writes reports to the Governor, Attorney General and relevant Ministers.  She has represented both Boards on a number of committees, including a major Review of the Mental Health Laws in Western Australia during 2002/2003.

Irene has taught and published in the areas of contract law, criminal law, sentencing, intellectual property, legal process and advocacy.  During her time at the University of Western Australia, she was actively involved in the Aboriginal Pre-Law Programme in conjunction with the Centre for Aboriginal Programmes.  She has organised conferences and conducted professional training courses in legal studies for Government agencies and has been a consultant researcher in a number of research projects, including prisoner disciplinary proceedings.