MCCABE CENTRE

The McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer is named after Rolah McCabe, an Australian woman who brought a personal injury claim against British American Tobacco in the Supreme Court of Victoria in the early 2000s. Rolah had started smoking in the early 1960s at the age of 12. Her case garnered international attention by exposing British American Tobacco's systematic destruction of thousands of documents relevant to her case and cases for others like her. Rolah died of lung cancer, aged 51, before her case settled. Following the settlement, Rolah's family and lawyers contributed funds to establish the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer... We are the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Law & Noncommunicable Disease, and the Knowledge Hub for legal challenges to implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).

Also known as: McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer

Primary location: Melbourne Australia