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The Law Council of Australia Policy 2001 on the Process of
Judicial Appointments: Any Good News for Future Female Judicial Appointees?
This article examines whether the Law Council of Australia's Policy 2001 on
the Process of Judicial Appointments sets out a model for judicial appointment,
which will be beneficial to future female (and 'others' of non-dominant background)
judicial appointees. Even today numbers of female judges are comparatively small.
When female judicial appointments have been made in recent years, their 'merit'
as appointees has been scrutinised in a way in which male colleagues have not
been similarly subjected.
This article examines the strengths and shortcomings of the LCA Policy as a
model for judicial appointment protocols (to be developed by State and federal
Attorneys-General) from the perspective of whether a Protocol based on the Policy
is likely to produce a more representative and inclusive judiciary with a 21st
century understanding of equality before the law.
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