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Evidence-based policy & law making: Bail reform in New South Wales

Evidence-based policy & law making: Bail reform in New South Wales

Kerryn Butler,

Kate Davies, | 2025

What role should evidence play in shaping justice policy, particularly when decisions must balance individual rights, public safety, and community expectations? This edition of Justice Issues explores the importance of...

judicial,

Law reform,

Procedural reform,

Recent,

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Case management reform: a study of the Federal Court’s individual docket system

Caroline Sage,

Ted Wright,

Carolyn Morris, | 2002

This project aimed to describe the individual docket system (IDS) as it has been implemented and to identify areas of difficulty as well as possible model practices or useful ways...

Courts and tribunals,

Procedural reform,

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Legal aid for committals: an evaluation of the impact of the centralised committals scheme

Ann Eyland,

Natalina Nheu,

Ted Wright, | 2001

Legal aid for committals: an evaluation of the impact of the centralised committals scheme

Courts and tribunals,

Criminal law,

Legal assistance services,

Procedural reform,

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Unrepresented parties and the Equal Opportunity Tribunal: a survey of Tribunals and recommendations for change

Mary Mervat Rebehy, | 2000

This project examines procedures in comparable Tribunals, and makes recommendations to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal (NSW) about the procedures in the Equal Opportunity Division (EOD), in order to make the...

Courts and tribunals,

Procedural reform,

Self representation,

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Managing prejudicial publicity: an empirical study of criminal jury trials in New South Wales

Michael Chesterman,

Janet Chan,

Shelley Hampton, | 2000

The aim of this study was to gain insights into the effects of prejudicial publicity on criminal jury trails. These included details about the crime, observations from jurors about the...

Criminal law,

Procedural reform,

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Litigation Support Fund: a reflection on the New South Wales experience

Stephen Reynolds,

Simon Rice, | 2000

Two key questions were addressed on the basis of the Law Foundation`s experience in operating the Litigation Support fund: can such a fund be financially viable and can it contribute...

Access to justice,

Civil law,

Costs and fees,

Procedural reform,

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Claiming under the Motor Accidents Scheme

Ted Wright,

Ann Eyland,

Jamie Cox,

Law Foundation (Justice Research Centre), | 1998

The aim of the study was to understand the significance of legal cost within the Scheme and to examine the relationship between legal cost and the process of resolving claims....

Civil law,

Costs and fees,

Procedural reform,

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Case management: rolling list in the Family Court, Sydney Registry. A report on the DCM program in the Common Law Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Tania Matruglio,

Law Foundation of NSW (Justice Research Centre), | 1996

This report provides preliminary information about practitioners' perceptions of rolling list, not an analysis of the impact of the procedure on the practitioners, their clients or the Court.

Courts and tribunals,

Family Court,

Procedural reform,

Supreme Court,

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An implementation evaluation of differential case management: a report on the DCM program in the Common Law Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

Tania Matruglio,

Joanne Baker,

Law Foundation of New South Wales,

Civil Justice Research Centre, | 1995

Courts and tribunals,

Procedural reform,

Supreme Court,

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An economic evaluation of differential case management

Chris Guest,

Tom Murphy,

Law Foundation of New South Wales,

Civil Justice Research Centre, | 1995

The study aimed to determine if the New South Wales differential case management program yielded economic benefits for society, compared with the two previous systems of case management, Practice Notes...

Civil law,

Courts and tribunals,

Procedural reform,

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The costs of civil litigation: current changing practices

Deborah Worthington,

Joanne Baker,

Law Foundation of NSW,

Civil Justice Research Centre, | 1993

The research was conducted to assist those currently examining the costs of litigation, and to provide a baseline against which the impact of any future reforms may be measured

Civil law,

Costs and fees,

Procedural reform,

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The pace of litigation in New South Wales: lessons from the tail

Deborah Worthington,

Law Foundation of NSW,

Civil Justice Research Centre, | 1991

In looking at the causes of delay, the focus of the report has been narrowed to a consideration of the pace of litigation, as it is conducted by the parties....

Courts and tribunals,

Procedural reform,

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