New South Wales Law Reform Commission
To the Honourable D.P. Landa, LLB, M.LC.,
Attorney General and Minister of justice for New South Wales.
INTERIM REPORT ON FIRST APPOINTMENTS AS MAGISTRATES UNDER THE LOCAL COURTS ACT, 1982
We make this Interim Report under our reference from you to inquire into and report on the procedures and criteria which should be followed and applied for selection of the persons to be first appointed as Magistrates under section 12(1) of the Local Courts Act 1982.
Professor Ronald Sackville
(Chairman)
Russell Scott
(Deputy Chairman)
Denis Gressier
(Commissioner)
J.R.T. Wood, Q.C.
(Commissioner)
16 September, 1983
New South Wales Law Reform Commission
The Law Reform Commission is constituted by the Law Reform Commission Act, 1967. The Commissioners are:
Chairman
Professor Ronald Sackville
Deputy Chairman
Full-Time Commissioners
Mr. Denis Gressier
Mr. J.PT. Wood, Q.C.
Part-Time Commissioners
Mr. I. Barker, Q.C.
Mr. Julian Disney
Mr. Justice A. Roden
Mr. Justice A. Rogers
Ms. Phillipa Smith
Mr. H. Sperling, Q.C.
Members of the Research Staff are:
Research Director
Members
Ms. Helen Mills
Mr. Ian Ramsay
Ms. Fiona Tito
Ms. Meredith Wilkie
The Secretary of the Commission is Ms. Mariella Lizier and its offices are at 16th Level Goodsell Building, 8-12 Chifley Square, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000. (telephone (02) 238-7213).
This is the thirty-eighth Report of the Commission. Its short citation is L.R.C. 38.
