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Appendix 2

information and Research projects from other jurisdictions

 

Australia

Managing complex criminal trials: reform of the rules of evidence and procedure: Mark Aronson, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate, 1992

Jury management in New South Wales, Mark Findlay, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate,1994

Criminal Trial Reform Conference, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate and The Standing Committee of Attorneys General, 24/25 March 2000 (Conference Papers)

Reform of Court Rules and Procedures in Criminal Trials, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate Conference paper, 3-4 July 1998

Anatomy of Long Criminal Trials, Dr Chris Corns, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate, 1997

Shorter Trials Committee: report on criminal trials, PA Sallman, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate and the Victoria Bar, 1985

The conduct of complex criminal trials, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate Report No. 10, October 1989

Australian Judicial perspectives on expert evidence: an empirical study, Dr Ian Freckelton, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate, 1999

Pleading guilty: issues and practices, Kathy Mach, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate, 1995

Information technology in complex trials, Graham Greenleaf & Andrew Mowbray, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate, 1993

Committals Review Committee: report, New South Wales, March 1999

Law Foundation of New South Wales: Annual Report 1999

Review of the Criminal and Civil Justice System in Western Australia, Project 92, Final Report, Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, September 1999

Adducing evidence under privilege: new perspectives on Uniform Evidence Act, 1998, Anthony Lo Surdo, 36(6) Law Society Journal (New South Wales)

Submission to the Honourable Attorney General concerning complex criminal trials, JA Nader QC, New South Wales, 1993

Annual Reports 1997-98 and 1998-99, The Office of the Legal Services Commissioner

Working Group on criminal trial procedure: report, Standing Committees of Attorney General, September 1999

Criminal Trial Reform Conference, discussion paper, Professor Warren Young

Uniform evidence Law — Third Edition, Stephen Odgers, Faculty of Law, Sydney University

The NSW Barristers' Rules, Bar Brief, Special Edition February 2000

Managing complex criminal trials — reform of the rules of evidence & procedure, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate

Incorporating criminal trial reform — joint national commission, The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporate & Standing Committee of Attorney Generals, March 2000

Deliberation forum on criminal trial reform Report, The Standing Committee of Attorneys General, June 2000

Managing Trial Court Delay: An Analysis of Trial Case Processing in the NSW District Criminal Court, Don Weatherburn & Joanne Baker, NSW Bureau of Criminal Statistics & Research, 2000

Review of the Criminal & Civil Justice System in Western Australia, Submissions Summary, Law Reform Commission of Western Australia

Receipt of evidence by Queensland Courts: the evidence of children, Report No.55 Part 1, Queensland Law Reform Commission, June 2000

Law Reform Commission of Western Australia Annual Report 1998—1999

Review of Criminal & Civil Justice Consultation Drafts, Vols 1 & 2, Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, June 1999

 

Canada

Setting Judicial compensation: multi disciplinary perspectives, Law Commission of Canada, 1999

Special Commission on Court Restructuring, Report of the Ontario Supreme Court Judges' Association, June 2000

Report of the Criminal Justice Review Commission, February 1999

Ontario Specimen Jury Instructions — Preliminary Instructions, Mid-Trial Instructions 1-17 and Final Instructions 1-41

Criminal Rules of the Supreme Court of British Columbia

Criminal Law Practice Direction (consolidated), Chief Justice Dohm, Supreme Court British Columbia

Criminal Appeal Rules, British Columbia Court of Appeal, 1986

Court of Appeal Rules, Saskatchewan

 

New Zealand

Changes in international and domestic law which are critical to a borderless world of electronic commerce: an update, Hon Justice Baragwanath, 6 September 1999

Electric commerce part 2, New Zealand Law Commission Report No 58

Magistrates in the District Court, paper by Cabinet Committee on Health & Social Policy, 27 March 1997

Community Magistrates’ Bill 1998

Chief Justice of New Zealand: Practice Notes:

Criminal Prosecution Report, Law Commission of New Zealand, December 1999

Consultation paper regarding preliminary hearings and criminal disclosure, Ministry of Justice, 27th October 1997

Selection and qualification for jury duty, New Zealand Law Commission

Juries in Criminal Trials Part 2 - Volume 1: a discussion paper and Volume 2: a summary of research findings, New Zealand Law Commission, November 1999

Evidence: Volume 1: reform of the Law and Volume 2: Evidence code and commentary, New Zealand Law Commission, Report 55, August 1999

Victims’ Rights Bill: draft, 29 September 1999

Criminal Prosecution Report, December 1999

 

Northern Ireland

A new beginning: policing in Northern Ireland, The Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, September 1999

Review of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland — A Progress Report, Criminal Justice Review Group, April 1999

Review of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland, Criminal Justice Review Group, March 2000

Northern Ireland Court Service Annual Report 1999/2000

Scotland

Charging the Jury: Some notes for the guidance of Judges and Sheriffs, Judicial Studies in Scotland, January 2000

Law Commission Reports on Evidence Nos 78, 93, 120, 125 & 137

Law of Incest, Law Commission Report No. 69

Charging the Jury, Judicial Studies Board Scotland, January 2000

Isle of Man

Summary Jurisdiction Act 1989

Germany

The German code of Criminal Procedure, April 1987

Vietnam

Comparative Legal Exchange Visit — Vietnam, 19th November to 2nd December 2000

The Law On the Organisations of People's Procuratorates, Socialist Republic of Vietnam

United States of America

The Jury Project — Report to the Chief Judge of the State of New York, 31st March 1994

 

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