how are chief justices appointed and how can the process be improved?
- Written by Gabrielle Appleby, Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
Next month we will see a significant shake-up in courts across Australia’s eastern seaboard. Three chief justices – Tom Bathurst, of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Catherine Holmes, of the Supreme Court of Queensland, and Helen Murrell of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory – are all due to retire.
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