SESSION
1: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Public Confidence in the Courtsxpaper
xx Chief Justice MURRAY GLEESON AC, High
Court of Australia
SESSION
2: DOES THE PUBLIC HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS?
Surveys of Public Confidence and the Response of Courts in the
USA xppt
xx Dr DAVID B ROTTMAN, National Center for
State Courts (USA)
Surveys of Public Confidence and the Response of the Courts in
Australia xppt
xx Judge CHRISTINE TRENORDEN, District Court
of SA
SESSION
3: WHAT AFFECTS PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS?
Public Confidence in the Judiciary: Some historical observations,
and a proposalxxpaper
xx Judge GREG WOODS, District Court of NSW
News as Entertainment and Celebrity: The judge in an era of familiarityxxpaper
xx Mr DUNCAN KERR SC MP, Federal Parliament
of Australia
SESSION
4: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Confidence in the Courtsxxpaper
xx The Hon PHILIP RUDDOCK MP, Commonwealth
Attorney-General
SESSION
5: JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS, JUDICIAL BEHAVIOUR, THE COST OF ACCESS AND JUDICIAL
CORROSION
Judicial Appointments, Judicial Behaviour & Complaint Mechanismsxxpaper
xx Chief Justice MARILYN WARREN AC, Supreme
Court of Victoria
The Cost of Access to Courtsxxpaper
xx Dr PETER CASHMAN, Commissioner, Victorian
Law Reform Commission
Judicial Corrosion: Outlines of a Theoryxxpaper
xx Prof JOHN KLEINIG, ANU & City University
of NY (USA)
SESSION
6A: MAGISTRATES’ COURTS AND PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
Magistrates' Courts & Public Confidencexxpaper
xx Magistrate GEORGE ZDENKOWSKI, Local Court,
NSW
Judicial Demeanour: Implications for public confidence
paper
xppt
xx Prof KATHY MACK & Prof SHARYN ROACH
ANLEU, Flinders University SA
SESSION
6B: WHAT AFFECTS PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS?—ACCOUNTABILITY
OF THE COURTS
Judicial Accountability and the Separation of Powers
xppt
xx Deputy Chief Justice JOHN FAULKS, Family
Court of Australia
Models of Court Administration in Australia: Have we got it right
yet?
xx Prof PETER SALLMANN, Monash University,
Victoria
SESSION
7A: HOW ARE PEOPLE TREATED BY THE COURTS?
How Was It For Them?
xx Mr NIC BOLTO, Executive Director, Court
Network Victoria
Youths’ Perceptions of the Justice System xppt
xx Dr CHRISTINE BOND, University of Queensland
Through the Looking Glass: Victims of crime and confidence in
the courtsxx paper
xx Ms ROBYN HOLDER, Chair, Victim Support
Australasia
SESSION
7B: HOW ARE PEOPLE TREATED BY THE COURTS?
Experts in Courts and Tribunals
xx Dr IAN FRECKELTON, Barrister, Owen Dixon
Chambers, Victoria
The Right Not to Have a Lawyerxx
paper xppt
xx Assoc Prof DUNCAN WEBB, University of
Canterbury, NZ
Jurors as the Courts’ Ambassadors to the Communityxxpaper
xppt
xx Mr RUDY MONTELEONE, Juries Commissioner,
Victoria
SESSION
8: ENHANCING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS—THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA
Journalists Trying to Make a Quid, Politicians Seeking Re-election
and Tightrope-walking Judges: Three-ring circus or democracy in action?xx
paper xppt
xx Justice MARGARET McMURDO, President, Court
of Appeal, Supreme Court of Qld
The Courts and the Media
xx Mr JACK WATERFORD AM, Editor at Large,
The Canberra Times
SESSION
10: ENHANCING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS—CURRENT RESEARCH
Independent Qualitative Research on the Public Impact of the Family
Court’s ‘Less Adversarial Proceedings’ Pilot: Implications
for other courts?
xx Justice LINDA DESSAU, Family Court of
Australia
Rougher Than Usual Media Treatment: The media, politics and the
judiciary, a discourse analysis of disrespect and directionxxpaperxppt
xx Ms PAMELA SCHULZ, University of South
Australia
Measuring Public Confidence in European Courts: Lessons for Australia
paper
xppt
xx Dr RICHARD MOHR, University of Wollongong,
NSW
SESSION
11: ENHANCING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS—THE FUTURE
Popular Punitiveness, the Rise of the ‘Public Voice’
and Other Challenges to Judicial Legitimacy paper
xx Prof DAVID BROWN, University of NSW
A Proactive Role for Courts in Promoting Public Confidence by
Facilitating Enhanced Public Understanding
xx Dr DANIEL STEPNIAK, University of Western
Australia
This
conference is the second in a series of three. The first conference, Sentencing:
Principles, Perspectives & Possibilities, was held in February
2006.
The third conference (Sentencing
2008) will be held in Canberra on 8, 9 & 10 February 2008. |
