Page 2984 - Week 09 - Thursday, 18 September 2014
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Supreme Court Sitting Days – Judges3 | ||||
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2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 | |
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Permanent Judges |
492 |
556 |
545 |
570 |
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Acting Judges |
166 |
54 |
175 |
47 |
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Visiting Judges |
40 |
69 |
46 |
32 |
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Total |
698 |
679 |
766 |
649 |
(3) The Court does not record data on how many days outside the court are taken working on ACT Supreme Court matters. This is a matter for individual judicial officers.
(4) The Court does not have the resources to undertake the requested calculations. The Supreme Court judiciary, who possess the records regarding the reserved judgments, have provided the following data:
2013-14: As at 30 June 2014 there were 56 reserved judgments4, 20 of which were Court of Appeal matters.
Of those reserved judgments:
• 12 judgments had been reserved for more than 3 months and less than 6 months.
• 10 judgments had been reserved for over 6 months.
The oldest reserved judgment had been reserved for 10 months
2012-13: As at 30 June 2013, excluding the reserved judgments of Master Harper (who retired during this period with a substantial number of reserved judgments), there were 56 reserved judgments (including 13 Court of Appeal).
Of those reserved judgments:
• 10 judgments had been reserved for more than 3 months and less than 6 months.
• 22 judgments had been reserved for over 6 months.
The oldest reserved judgment had been reserved for 4 years 8 months
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1 These figures exclude the Eastman Inquiry. Figures vary from published ROGS results as counting rules are different ROGS. Figures do not include Master or Registrar resources.
2 Sitting days are calculated as days when the Court sits for more than one hour.
3 These figures exclude the Eastman Inquiry, and 4 days taken by the retired Justice Gallop in 2011 to finalise an outstanding matter.
4 This excludes the 2 reserved judgments of retired Master Harper.
2012: No central record of reserved judgments was kept as at June 2012, but there are approximate figures for the end of July 2012.
As at 31 July 2012, there were approximately 90 reserved judgments, of which 16 were Court of Appeal matters. 5
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