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Judicial Conduct Commissioner and Judicial Conduct Panel Act 2004

Judicial Conduct Panel

22: Membership of Panel

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You are part of a Judicial Conduct Panel if the Attorney-General appoints you. The Panel has members who are Judges or retired Judges, and a barrister or solicitor with a practising certificate for at least 7 years. A lay member who is not a Judge or a lawyer is also part of the Panel. The Panel is led by a retired Judge, or if there is no retired Judge, the senior Judge leads. If there is only one Judge on the Panel, that Judge leads. If a Judge is on the Panel, it does not change their job as a Judge. They keep their title, salary, and other benefits, and serving on the Panel is considered part of their job as a Judge.

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22Membership of Panel

  1. A Judicial Conduct Panel consists of the following persons appointed by the Attorney-General:

  2. 2 members, being—
    1. Judges; or
      1. a Judge and a retired Judge; or
        1. a member who is a Judge or a retired Judge, and a member who is a barrister or solicitor who has held a practising certificate as such for not less than 7 years; and
        2. a lay member (not being a Judge, a retired Judge, or a barrister or solicitor).

          1. The Panel is chaired by—

          2. the member who is a retired Judge; or
            1. if there is no retired Judge on the Panel, the member who is the senior Judge (if there are 2 Judges on the Panel) or the member who is a Judge (if there is only 1 Judge on the Panel).

              1. The appointment of a Judge as a member of a Panel or service by a Judge as a member of a Panel does not affect his or her tenure of judicial office, rank, title, status, precedence, salary, annual or other allowances, or other rights or privileges as a Judge (including matters relating to superannuation), and, for all purposes, service by a Judge as a member of the Panel must be taken to be service as a Judge.