The Magistrates' Court is about to start staggered listings. It plans to predominantly list criminal or complex cases in the mornings, and traffic and less complex cases in the afternoons.Additionally, all venues of the Court will commence sitting at 9:30 AM.You can read about it here.As part of this change, the Magistrates' Court is also …
Month: February 2011
Driving to distraction
Edit: No surprises in the SA Supreme Court decision of Savage v Police [2011] SASC 13, reported as though it was news here. The decision was more about a magistrate's discretion to award a conviction. The issue of merely using a phone to check the time was dismissed immediately, with reference to Kyriakopoulos v Police …
School days 2011
The school term has now begun at most schools in Victoria. Cars are now obliged to crawl past primary and secondary schools at 40 km/h at certain times of day.In the Road Rules - Victoria, school zones were defined and described at r 23. Under the Road Safety Road Rules 2009 school zones are gone …
Tables bar
You may have noticed a new sidebar above SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION marked TABLES.Here you'll find a number of tables summarising information that may be useful if you practice in the summary jurisdiction. They are designed to be functional rather than pretty. Let me know if you can think of ways to improve them or extra ones …
The Daily List (aka iKnow when my case is on)
Hat tip to one of my colleagues who mentioned this to me today.I hadn't heard of it — please, don't tell me I'm the last to know? — so figure I should share the info.The Department of Justice has an iPhone/iPad app called The Daily List. It provides access to daily court lists for the …
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