Supreme Court publishes 2024-25 annual report
… Appeal increased by 17.1 per cent. The Criminal Division delivered a clearance rate of 168 per cent. Fast-track committals continue to reduce overall case duration, with an average of …
Vexatious Proceedings Act 2014
… The Vexatious Proceedings Act 2014 (the Act) commenced on 31 October 2014. The Act replaces existing provisions in the Supreme Court Act 1986 in relation to vexatious litigants and introduces a new system … restraint orders- preventing a litigant from commencing or continuing proceedings against a particular person or in …
Court of Appeal publishes reasons in Tannous v The Queen
… with a non-parole period of five years. It was conceded by the Crown on appeal that the sentencing judge failed to adequately take into account that Mr Tannous has an acquired brain … but not necessarily lesser, sentence could be imposed by combining a term of imprisonment with a Community Correction …
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Joint statement on easing of COVID-safe settings
… distancing including jury trials. There remains only a recommendation for 1.5m distancing where members of the public … not enter a court or tribunal building. The ability to safely return to in-person hearings without the constraints of physical distancing will allow the Courts to …
New courtrooms at William Cooper Justice Centre
… Court will be able to expand the types of hearings it conducts at the William Cooper Justice Centre following the … The new facilities will be used by the Court to hear commercial and common law matters, as well as some Court of Appeal hearings. The new courtrooms …
Judgment handed down in Carron Investments Pty Ltd and George Lang and Anor
… the Magistrates' Court Registry in 1999. Carron Investments commenced proceedings against Mr Lang in 1997 for alleged … its application for default judgment noted service of the complaint upon Mr Lang but made no reference to service of … of the Supreme Court reviewed the magistrate's decision and concluded it was beset by unreasonableness. The associate …
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Judgment handed down in DPP v Trueman
… of Public Prosecutions against the sentence imposed on Michael Patrick Trueman. Mr Trueman had pleaded guilty to charges … wrong side of the road. Mr Trueman had a number of prior convictions for driving related offences and his driver's … down after Mr Trueman had entered a plea of guilty at a committal hearing, but before his plea on arraignment at his …
Special message from the Chief Justice to lawyers admitted to practise on the papers in 2020
… Chief Justice Ferguson said the video message was a way to congratulate the 1,762 lawyers who had been admitted on the … year, and I have been moved by the way the profession has come together in support of one another,” her Honour said. … . … The Chief Justice of Victoria, Anne Ferguson, has released a special video message for the many lawyers who …
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Forensic medicine and the Court
… Forensic medicine and the Supreme Court share a special relationship; in addition to it being the Court's 175 year … in the district. It also gave the coroner the power to commit a person for trial if they concluded that a death constituted a case of homicide. …
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