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Since. 17 August 2020. (2020-08-17) The District Court of Queensland (QDC) is the second tier in the court hierarchy of Queensland, Australia. [1] The Court deals with serious criminal offences such as rape, armed robbery and fraud. Juries are used to decide if defendants are guilty or not guilty.
For example, the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) and Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld) are quite different. In Queensland, the rules were intended to be "uniform, so far as practicable, for all three courts in the State stream" [ 5 ] – that is, to unify the procedure of the Supreme , District and Magistrates Court , not ...
The Magistrates Court hears approximately 95% of all court cases in Queensland. [4] Decisions made by the Magistrates Court may be heard on appeal to the District Court of Queensland. The Magistrates Court does not have an appellate jurisdiction. The Chief Magistrate of Queensland, since 2022, is Judge Janelle Brassington.
All but two judges were appointed to the new court. The security of tenure of the remaining judges, Dunphy and Joske, was protected however they had little judicial work to do. Joske retired at the end of 1977, however Dunphy remained despite pressure from parliament for him to retire. Dunphy retired at the end of 1982.
Wotton v Queensland (the Palm Island Class Action case) is a class action lawsuit brought against the State of Queensland and the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service on behalf of 447 Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders who live on Palm Island in Queensland, Australia. The class action arose out of the events surrounding ...
The judiciary of Australia comprises judges who sit in federal courts and courts of the States and Territories of Australia. The High Court of Australia sits at the apex of the Australian court hierarchy as the ultimate court of appeal on matters of both federal and State law. The large number of courts in Australia have different procedural ...
Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland[1] (commonly known as the Wik decision) is a decision of the High Court of Australia delivered on 23 December 1996, on whether statutory leases extinguish native title rights. The court found that the statutory pastoral leases under consideration by the court did not bestow rights of exclusive possession on ...
Chief Justice of Queensland. Currently. Catherine Holmes SC. Since. 7 September 2015 (2015-09-07) The Queensland Court of Disputed Returns is a court that adjudicates disputes concerning Queensland Government and local government elections and state referendums in Queensland, Australia. The Court is a division of the Supreme Court of Queensland .