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Victoria's criminal courts are critically backlogged. This is how we can speed up justice

  • Written by Greg Barns, Sessional Lecturer in Law, RMIT University
Victoria's criminal courts are critically backlogged. This is how we can speed up justiceJames Ross/AAP

In early September, Victoria Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne Ferguson issued a statement as COVID cases began to rapidly decline across the state following the peak of the second wave.

Ferguson said she and her colleagues would

carefully consider what changes we can make practically, safely and steadily in line with the easing of...

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