| Description |
1 online resource (609 pages) |
| Contents |
Terms of Reference -- Participants -- Acknowledgments -- Recommendations -- List of Background Papers -- Glossary -- Figures and Tables -- 1. Introduction -- The Inquiry -- The impetus for reform -- Terminology -- Related inquiries -- Navigating this Report -- Guiding principles -- Overview of key findings -- Process of reform -- Part One: Foundations -- 2. Judicial impartiality in context -- Introduction -- Foundations of judicial impartiality -- Understanding judicial impartiality -- Achieving (sufficient) judicial impartiality: an attitude and a process -- Identifying potential vulnerabilities -- Securing (sufficient) judicial impartiality -- Guiding principles for the Inquiry -- 3. Overview of the law on bias -- Introduction -- The bias rule -- Actual bias -- The legal test for apprehended bias -- Development of the law on bias -- The fair-minded lay observer -- Context in which apprehended bias may arise -- Procedures for upholding the bias rule -- Exceptions to the bias rule -- 4. Bias in a broader perspective -- Introduction -- The meanings of bias -- Judging and bounded rationality -- Heuristics and cognitive biases -- Motivated reasoning -- Attitudes, schemas, scripts, and stereotypes -- Strategies to minimise improper influences on decision-making -- The role of emotion -- Implications for the law and the courts -- 5. Empirical research -- Introduction -- Highlights form the analysis -- Australian Survey of Social Attitudes -- ALRC Survey of Judges -- ALRC Survey of Lawyers -- ALRC Survey of Court Users -- ALRC Case Review -- Consultations and submissions -- Part Two: Mechanisms for raising and determining issues of bias -- 6. Identifying and raising potential bias issues -- Introduction -- Overview of procedures -- Court-specific judicial disqualification guidelines -- Allocation of cases -- Post allocation: Judge-led processes -- Post-allocation: Party-led processes -- Supporting evidence -- Reasons for recusal -- The special position of the High Court -- Support for greater transparency of process -- 7. Self-disqualification procedure -- Introduction -- Existing procedures for disqualification -- Introduction -- Existing procedures for disqualification -- Critique of the existing procedures -- Discretionary transfer in single judge cases -- Multimember court disqualification decisions -- Views on reform of the procedure in multimember courts -- 8. Review and appeal mechanisms -- Introduction -- Options for challenge on the grounds of bias -- Formalising streamlined interlocutory appeals -- Current practice and procedure for interlocutory challenge -- Problems with existing law and practice on interlocutory challenge -- Consideration of reform -- Other issues concerning interlocutory and final appeal -- 9. Other mechanisms for raising allegations of bias -- Introduction -- Judicial independence, impartiality, and accountability -- Existing mechanisms for raising allegations of bias -- A federal judicial commission -- Part Three: The law on actual and apprehended bias -- 10. Finding clarity in law and practice -- Introduction -- Addressing shortcomings in the existing law -- Enhancing transparency of law and ordinary judicial practice -- Areas for further attention or clarification -- 11. Social and cultural bias -- Introduction -- Social and cultural bias, and the judicial oath -- The law on social and cultural bias -- Consultation feedback on bias resulting from social and cultural factors -- Unpacking bias related to social and cultural factors -- Research on the institutional impact of social and cultural bias -- Strategies to address social and cultural bias in decision-making -- Part Four: Complementary structures to support judicial impartiality and public confidence -- 12. Institutional supports and safeguards -- Introduction -- The importance of resourcing -- A transparent judicial appointments process -- Statistics on judicial diversity -- Structured and transparent judicial education -- Engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, culture, and law -- Review of the Guide to Judicial Conduct -- Data on court experiences and outcomes -- Information about supports and safeguards for impartiality -- Part Five: Appendices -- Appendix A Consultations -- Appendix B Consultation Paper Proposals and Questions -- Appendix C Submissions to Consultation Paper -- Appendix D Primary Sources -- Appendix E Experiences of Impartiality and Bias -- Appendix F Data Methodology -- Appendix G Recusal Guidelines of New Zealand Courts -- Appendix H State and Territory Judicial Appointments Processes -- Appendix I Example Professional Development Pathway -- Appendix J Judicial Education Courses in New Zealand |
| Subject |
Justice, Administration of -- Australia
|
|
Judges -- Australia
|
|
Judicial ethics -- Australia
|
|
Administrative discretion -- Australia
|
|
Judicial ethics.
|
|
Administrative discretion.
|
|
Bias (Law)
|
|
Administrative discretion
|
|
Bias (Law)
|
|
Judges
|
|
Judicial ethics
|
|
Justice, Administration of
|
|
Australia
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780980415308 |
|
0980415306 |
|
