The JCA’s 2019 Colloquium will be in Darwin from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 June 2019. You can register by clicking here. ...
The Judicial Conference of Australia (JCA) has expressed concern at reports of serious threats of violence following the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the case of Asia Bibi. On 31st October 2018, the Supreme Court of Pakistan allowed Asia Bibi’s appeal, acquitted her of the charge of blasphemy, and quashed the [&hellip...
“The Judicial Conference of Australia (JCA) endorses the response of the Chief Justice of the Federal Court to the article by Aaron Patrick in the Australian Financial Review on 26 October 2018, the President of the JCA, Justice Judith Kelly said today. “As that response accurately and succinctly points out, the analysis in the Patrick [&hellip...
“The Judicial Conference of Australia (JCA) welcomes the announcement by the New South Wales Attorney General that seven new judges are to be appointed to the District Court of New South Wales and significant additional funding made available to that Court as part of a $150 million package,” the President of the JCA, Justice Judith [&hellip...
The Hon G Tony Pagone, QC, has been elected as the President of the International Association of Judges (IAJ). This is the first time an Australian has held this high office. The IAJ is the pre-eminent international association of judges, bringing together almost 90 national associations of judges from all parts of the world. Individual [&hellip...
At its annual colloquium in Melbourne last weekend, the Judicial Conference of Australia elected a new President, Justice Judith Kelly of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and Vice President, Justice Glenn Martin of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Justice Judith Kelly noted with concern observations made by Judge Robyn Tupman of the [&hellip...
Today, the President of the Judicial Conference of Australia, Justice Robert Beech-Jones, reiterated the JCA’s position in relation to the Federal Government’s proposal to restructure the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court. The legislation giving effect to that proposal was introduced into Federal Parliament on 23 August and referred to a Senate Committee on [&hellip...
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The President of the JCA, Justice Robert Beech-Jones, has expressed concern that the current debate about the proposed restructure of the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court has included unfounded criticism of the performance of individual judges and groups of judges. “Generally, an assessment of the merits of the proposed restructure is a policy [&hellip...
A letter was sent on behalf of the President of the JCA, Justice Robert Beech-Jones, to the Editor of The Australian in response to the article “Don’t quarantine judges from criticism” published on page 2 of that newspaper on 20 March 2018. Part of this letter was published in the newspaper on 22 March 2018. [&hellip...