ANZIHLE Policies
Submission Guidelines
- No person shall make a submission to an external body or organisation where that submission purports to be from ANZIHLE unless the prior written approval of the ANZIHLE Board has been obtained.
- All public calls for submissions to external bodies or organisations received by the ANZIHLE Board must, to the extent possible, be communicated to ANZIHLE members. A notice in the ANZIHLE Newsletter will be sufficient notice.
- Where the Board is either invited, or resolves, to make a submission, it may commission a member of ANZIHLE to write that submission for the Board's approval. These guidelines apply to such commissioned submissions.
- ANZIHLE members who wish to make, or are commissioned to write, a submission
to an external body or organisation on behalf of AIHLE must submit a copy
of the submission to the AIHLE Board for approval at least 21 days before
the closing date for submissions. Failure to meet this deadline may result
in Board approval being withheld. On receipt of submission, or at the
time of commissioning a submission, the Executive Officer will, after
appropriate consultation with the Board, establish a subcommittee of the
Board with expertise relevant to the submission who will be responsible
to determine whether the submission is acceptable. The recommendation
of the subcommittee will then be conveyed by the Executive Officer to
the other members of the Board, together with copies of the submission
for their adoption /rejection. If, within not more than 7 days, the recommendation
is adopted by at least two thirds of the Board, the submission shall be
taken to have been endorsed.
Where the Board has commissioned a submission or has been advised that a submission is to be tendered for its approval, it may seek additional time to make the submission. - ANZIHLE aims to bring together a broad range of perspectives across a range of disciplines. Accordingly, submissions from ANZIHLE should aim to provide an overview of the relevant debates and the range of policy and reform options. It is not the purpose of ANZIHLE submissions to present a single view on issues which are the subject of community debate. The Board will not endorse submissions which do not satisfy this provisions. The Board may, in response to a direct invitation or of its own resolve, commission a submission that adopts or recommends one among a number of policy or reform options.
- In determining whether or not to endorse a submission, whether tendered for endorsement or commissioned, the ANZIHLE Board or a subcommittee, may, if it chooses, provide the authors with comments and/or suggested revisions. However, the Board is not obliged to do this. Such comments or revisions will not amount to endorsement.
- After the Board has made a decision about whether to endorse a submission, the Chair of the Board or the Executive Officer shall notify the author(s) in writing.
- No submission which has received Board endorsement shall be made to the external body or organisation unless it includes, as a part of submission itself, written advice from the Chair of the ANZIHLE Board indicating that the Board has endorsed the submission.
- Nothing in these guidelines prevents an ANZIHLE member from making a submission to an external body or organisation in a personal capacity and without reference to ANZIHLE.
- When a submission has been made on behalf of ANZIHLE, notice will be included in the next Newsletter informing members that the submission has been made and that copies of the submission are available to members for the cost of reproduction and postage.
"Topics for Attention" Issues Papers
You will have now received a copy of the second Issues Paper, by Natasha
Cica on The Euthanasia Debate in Australia - Legal and Political Issues.
The Board has endorsed the following Guidelines For Authors:
Editorial Policy
The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health, Law and Ethics is committed to improving the quality of debate on matters of legal and ethical importance in the field of health care and to promoting useful research and communication in these areas. As part of this agenda, from 1997, ANZIHLE will publish a series of issues papers entitled "Topics for Attention" four times per year. These papers will be distributed to each member of the Institute as part of their membership and are will also be available for sale to non-members.The purpose of the ANZIHLE "Topics for Attention" series is to identify
contemporary issues in health care, law and ethics which require attention.
Accordingly, the focus should be on specifying a particular
area of concern, outlining what needs attention and suggesting avenues for
change. In this regard, it is important to distinguish between issues papers
and position papers. The ANZIHLE series is an avenue for promoting discussion
via a well-researched account of a current concern in the health care field.
It is not a vehicle for polemical tracts which set out only one side of
an argument. To ensure a high quality of publication, each paper will undergo
a process of peer review.
Copyright
Because each issues paper is written under the auspices of ANZIHLE, copyright will vest in the Institute. Written permission must be obtained from the chair of the ANZIHLE Board for any part of the publication to be reproduced elsewhere.Submissions
- Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts to
Dr Bernadette McSherry, Series Editor,
ANZIHLE Topics for Attention,
c/- Faculty of Law, Monash University,
Clayton, Vic 3168. - Manuscript, including endnotes, should be double-spaced typescript on one side only of A4 paper with a substantial margin. A disk in Word 5 compatible format should be submitted with the manuscript.
- The standard length of papers is 3,000 to 5,000 words
- The manuscript should include endnotes, numbered consecutively throughout, and a list of references.
- Authors are requested to write the title, their name and qualifications on a separate page to the manuscript.
Style Points
- Endnotes should include all case, journal and book references.
- Levels of headings should be clearly indicated.
- Authorised reports should be used in citations.
- Gender-neutral language should be used.