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Senior Courts Act 2016

Senior court Judges - Seniority of Judges

126: Seniority of Associate Judges

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"How Associate Judges are ranked in order of importance"

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You want to know about the seniority of Associate Judges. Associate Judges are ranked according to when they were appointed. If two or more Associate Judges were appointed on the same day, their seniority is decided by the Governor-General's precedence or the order they took the judicial oath.

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Seniority of Judges

126Seniority of Associate Judges

  1. Associate Judges are senior to each other in order of date of appointment.

  2. If 2 or more Associate Judges have the same date of appointment, then seniority among those Judges is determined according to—

  3. the precedence assigned to them by the Governor-General on appointment; or
    1. if no precedence was assigned to them, the order in which they took the judicial oath.