Category: Judiciary

These somewhat didactic — but on the whole reasonable — ‘order preparation guidelines’ were recently issued by Judge Robert Kressel of the United States District Court to solicitors responsible for preparing draft orders in bankruptcy proceedings. Given the ardency with which most lawyers defend their grammatical and syntactic convictions, the controversy sparked by the practice… Read more →

According to a report in The Age online, Justice Kiefel of the Federal Court of Australia has been appointed as successor to Mr Justice Callinan, who must retire by 31 August 2007. Ms Justice Kiefel was born in Queensland and studied at Cambridge. Her Honour has handed down some important trade practices, immigration and taxation… Read more →

According to this article on CNET News, ‘The Xhibit (‘eXchanging Hearing Information By Internet Technology’) system, now rolled out to 50 Crown courts in England and Wales, allows court clerks to update information about hearings as they happen. The system enables police, prosecutors and witness groups to get case details in minutes rather than days.… Read more →

The Sydney Morning Herald has published a fascinating review of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, with reference to the number of their decisions subsequently overturned by the High Court of Australia: If the NSW Court of Appeal was a batsman it would not even have an average this… Read more →

The Honourable Justice Susan Crennan, previously a justice of the Federal Court of Australia, has been appointed to the High Court by Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock. Justice Crennan will replace McHugh J, who is due to retire in November. Although Crennan J will be just the second female appointee in the Court’s history, Mr Ruddock was… Read more →