The novel unfolds through e-mails, legal briefs, handwritten notes, and interoffice memos, along with a child-evaluation form and custody recommendations submitted by a therapist.
Social-workers' custody recommendations are influenced by professional and personal factors.
Under cross-examination from Steven Castan, counsel for Bennell's mother, Maxine, West said he had neither received training about nor read the recommendations of the 1989-1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, specifically recommendations 35 and 36, which say all deaths should be investigated as a homicide and suicide should never be assumed.
At his arraignment, Mr. Phoenix was ordered kept in custody on the recommendation of the prosecutor, Sandra Fried, who cited "the vicious nature of this crime".
What standards do exist for the treatment of immigrants in federal custody are only recommendations.
The 1991 royal commission into deaths in custody made 339 recommendations, many of which have not been implemented.
A judge ruled that Mr. Scott would remain in custody after hearing recommendations from Josh Hanshaft, the prosecutor in the case, that he be held due to the "extreme viciousness of this crime".
She said her agency would investigate Mr. Williams and evaluate the girls' physical and emotional health before making a recommendation on custody.
Reflecting on what was then former judge Brian Ross Martin's duty, Gooda told Radio National on Thursday the inquiry could not echo the experience of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, which produced 339 recommendations, most of which have not been enacted.
Her family have campaigned for an end to the practice of sending people to jail for failing to pay fines, and for the introduction of an independent mandatory custody notification system – both recommendations of the royal commission that have been implemented in other states, such as New South Wales, but not WA.
