Handbook for Judicial Officers — Acknowledgements

Contributing authors

The Judicial Commission of NSW wishes to thank the following writers for their valuable contributions:

Part 1: The role of the judicial officer

Independence, accountability and open justice

  • The Honourable T F Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW

  • The Honourable S Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of Australia

Impartiality and fairness

  • Professor S Roach Anleu, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University

  • Emerita Professor K Mack, College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders University

  • The Honourable T F Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW

  • The Honourable Justice E Kyrou, Judge of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria

Diversity

  • The Honourable Justice H Wood, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania

  • Mr B Rauf, Barrister, State Chambers

  • The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC)

  • The Honourable W Martin AC QC, former Chief Justice of Western Australia; Chair, Judicial Council on Diversity and Inclusion

Ethics and conduct

  • The Honourable R Sackville AO QC, former Judge of Appeal, NSW Court of Appeal, currently Chair, Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability

  • The Honourable T F Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW

  • The Honourable S Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of Australia

Efficiency, competence, delay and case management

  • His Honour Judge S Hanley SC, Judge of the District Court of NSW

  • The Honourable Mr P Young AO QC, Former Justice of the Court of Appeal

  • Professor T Sourdin, Professor and Dean, Newcastle Law School, the University of Newcastle

  • Dr B Li, Lecturer, University of Newcastle

  • A Burke, Solicitor and PhD scholar, Newcastle

  • The Right Honourable Lord Dyson, Former Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice (2012–2016)

  • The Honourable Mr M Gleeson AC, Former Chief Justice of Australia

Part 2: Judicial method

Delivery of judgments

  • The Honourable Mr D Lloyd QC, former judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW

  • Professor Emeritus J Raymond, University of Alabama, former editor of College English; President, The International Institute for Legal Writing + Reasoning

  • Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales and former President of the NSW Court of Appeal

  • The Honourable Justice S Gageler AC, Justice of the High Court of Australia

  • The Honourable Justice M Weinberg AO, Former Judge, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria

  • The Honourable Justice P Keane AC, Justice of the High Court of Australia

Communication

  • Mr M Painting, CEO, National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters

  • Ms S Olbrich, Senior Policy Adviser, Migration Council Australia and Judicial Council on Diversity and Inclusion

  • Ms J Kalowski, former Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the National Native Title Tribunal

Legal reasoning

  • The Honourable Justice S Gageler AC, Justice of the High Court of Australia

  • The Honourable Mr Justice Mostyn, Justice of the High Court, England and Wales, Family Division

  • Professor D Lind, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech

The role of judicial education

  • The Honourable Justice J Allsop AO, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

  • The Honourable M Gleeson AC, Former Chief Justice of Australia

  • The Honourable T F Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW

  • Mr E Schmatt AM, PSM, Chief Executive, Judicial Commission of NSW

Part 3: Challenges and issues with the role of the judicial officer

Socialising and social media

  • Her Honour Judge J Gibson, Judge of the District Court of NSW

  • Associate Professor J Johnston, The University of Queensland

  • Professor A Wallace, La Trobe University

  • The Honourable Justice S Rares, judge of the Federal Court of Australia and an additional judge of the Supreme Court of the ACT and the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island

  • Dr M Bromberg, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia Law School, Solicitor

Relationship with legal profession, bullying and sexual harassment

  • Ms K Nomchong SC, Senior Counsel, Denman Chambers

  • Mr J Phillips SC, Barrister, State Chambers

Actual or apprehended bias and unconscious bias

  • Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales and former President of the NSW Court of Appeal

  • The Honourable Justice J Basten, Judge of Appeal, New South Wales Court of Appeal

  • Ms K Lumley, Publishing and Communications Manager, Judicial Commission of NSW

  • Professor J Rachlinski, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

  • Professor S L Johnson, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

  • Magistrate Judge A Wistrich, United States District Court, Central District of California

  • Professor C Guthrie, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School

  • Lord D Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury GBS PC HonFRS, Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and Chair of the High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, Former Master of the Rolls

Publicity and social criticism

  • The Honourable Justice P Keane AC, Justice of the High Court of Australia

  • The Honourable T F Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW

  • Dr M Bromberg, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia Law School, Solicitor

  • Mr A Ekert, Deputy-Associate, Federal Circuit Court

Stress and vicarious trauma

  • Ms C Schrever, psychologist, Judicial Wellbeing Advisor to the Judicial College of Victoria, researcher at the University of Melbourne

  • The Honourable M Kirby AC CMG, Patron of the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation, former Justice of the High Court of Australia

  • Mr D Heilpern, Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University and former Magistrate of the NSW Local Court

  • Mr P Harvey, former Magistrate (now deceased), Licensing and Local Court, New South Wales

  • Associate Professor C Hulbert, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne

  • Professor and Dean T Sourdin, Newcastle Law School, The University of Newcastle

  • Professor J Hunter, Faculty of Law, University of NSW

  • Professor R Kemp, School of Psychology, University of NSW

  • Mr K O'Sullivan, Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of NSW

  • Professor P Vines, Faculty of Law, University of NSW

  • Her Honour Magistrate E Kennedy, Local Court of NSW

Unrepresented, querulant and vexatious litigants

  • Her Honour Judge L Flannery SC, Judge of the District Court of NSW

  • The Honourable Justice E Kyrou, Judge of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria

  • Dr G Lester, Consultant Psychiatrist, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health

  • Mr C Wheeler, Former Deputy NSW Ombudsman. Currently Solicitor, Commissioner (p/t) Greyhound Welfare and Integrity Commission, Specialist Adviser, Ethical Conduct, Centium Group, and consultant advising on the management of complaints and whistleblowing

  • Mr J Faulks, Former Deputy Chief Justice, Family Court of Australia

Non-adversarial justice

  • The Honourable W Martin AC QC, Former Chief Justice of Western Australia

  • The Honourable T F Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW

  • Mr M Kimber SC, Founder of Max Kimber Communication, Member, ADR Committee, NSW Bar Association

Therapeutic jurisprudence and the trauma-informed court

  • Ms B O’Neill, Dunghutti woman, First Nations Trauma Recovery and Practice Practitioner

  • Mr N Cowdery AO QC, Visiting Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Law, UNSW

  • Professor J Hunter, Faculty of Law, UNSW

  • Ms R McMahon, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW, Co-Chair, Bugmy Bar Book

  • The Honourable Judge Hora (now deceased), Former President, Justice Speakers Institute, LLC; former judge of the California Superior Court

  • His Honour Judge Hunt, District Court of NSW

  • Mr R Dive, former Senior Judge, Drug Court of NSW

  • Her Honour Magistrate S Duncombe, Children’s Court of NSW

  • Mr S McCarthy, Barrister Sir James Martin Chambers

  • Ms R Waterworth, psychologist

  • His Honour Dr M King, magistrate of the Dandenong Drug Court and Magistrates Court of Victoria

  • His Honour Magistrate M Douglass, Local Court of NSW

Artificial intelligence

  • Dr W Gravett, Associate Professor, Department of Procedural Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria

  • The Honourable G Nettle AC QC, former Justice of the High Court of Australia

  • The Honourable T F Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW

  • Ms D Hogan-Doran SC, Senior Counsel, Australian Bar; Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW

  • Mr R Susskind OBE FRSE, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, professorships at the University of Oxford, Gresham College and Strathclyde University, past Chair of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information, President of the Society for Computers and Law

  • Professor and Dean T Sourdin, Newcastle Law School, The University of Newcastle

  • The Honourable Justice J Allsop AO, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

  • Mr D Farrands KC, Barrister, Victorian Bar