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Article: Experts clash over judicial appointments commission.
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- Australasian Business Intelligence
- Article date:
- November 8, 2006
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Byline: Alex Boxsell
Nov 08, 2006 (Lawyers Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A debate about a judicial appointments commission was held at a forum in Sydney. Politicians, judges and academics were among those to participate in the debate. The Honourable Geoff Davies AO, a judge at the Queensland Court of Appeal, presented the case in favour of a judicial appointments commission. Davies said that Australia is one of the few Western countries without such a body. Philip Ruddock, the Attorney-General, argued that the ...