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Chapter 20

Relations with the judiciary

Contents

• Appointment and removal of judges
• Constitutional questions
  • Section 72 and other provisions
  • The meaning of misbehaviour
  • Review of removals on address
  • Discretion of the Governor-General
  • Advice on misbehaviour
  • Procedural requirements
  • Compellability of judges as witnesses
  • The rights of the accused judge
  • Interested senators
  • Should section 72 be changed
• Inquiries into conduct of a Judge
  • The first Senate committee
  • Report of the first committee
  • The second Senate committee
  • Report of the second committee
  • Criminal proceedings against the judge
  • The parliamentary commission of inquiry
  • Queensland precedent
  • New South Wales precedent
  • Other office-holders
• Other aspects of relations with the Judiciary
• Scrutiny of judicial administration

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