Activity Plan

What is a stakeholder?

DISCUSSION

To class: What is a stakeholder?

Answer: a person or an organisation that holds an interest in something.

For example, stakeholders can be people who hold an interest in a business: shareholders (they
don’t want to see the value of the company decrease because they would lose money).

In a legal sense - if there are changes in the law to a specific area – who are the people that are
going to advocate for and against the changes? Who are going to be impacted by the changes?
They are the stakeholders.

Surrogacy: medical profession, legal profession, surrogacy support groups, family court (they
grant the parentage rights for a child born through surrogacy), religious organisations
Patent: business community (patent owners, competitors), legal profession, courts,
Copyright: business community (copyright owners,
Cyberbullying: mental health services, schools, legal profession (prosecuting and defending
criminal instances of bullying i.e. using carriage service to menace/harass. Stalking, etc.)

Scaffold scenario:
Criminal law – Domestic violence laws need changing as a result of the 140 recommendations
made in the report by Dame Quentin Bryce ‘Not now, not ever: Putting an end to Domestic and
Family Violence’.

Who are the people or organisations that would either be for or against changes to the
domestic violence laws? Who is going to be impacted by the changes in the laws?

Police (they arrest those that commit an act of domestic violence)

Prosecution (they appear in court for the person that is the victim of domestic violence
Domestic Violence Support groups (social workers, counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists)
Domestic Violence Shelters (they need more funding if the numbers of victims increase)
Legal Profession – they attend court on behalf of the defendant for charges, for putting in place
DVOs, or even applying for criminal compensation for a victim at the conclusion of a criminal
case.
Courts: they hear the DVO application cases, they sentence defendants that have been
convicted of a domestic violence offence