To Judge is ‘To Sleep: Perchance to Dream

Shakespeare William , ‘Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’, in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1973) act 3, sc 1, 861.

Stathooles v Mount Isa Mines Limited [1997] 2 Qd R 106; R v Betson [2004] 2 Cr App R (S) 52; People v Degondea, 769 NYS2d 490 (2003); People v Donley, 731 NE2d 1260 (2000); Hummel v State, 617NW2d 561 (2000); R v Edworthy (1961) Crim LR 325; R v Langham and Langham (1972) Crim LR 457; R v Moringiello [1997] Crim LR 902; Pannick David , Judges (1987) 78.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie JJ and Basten JA , 5 September 2007).

Transcript of Special Leave Proceedings, Cesan v The Queen; Rivadavia v The Queen (High Court of Australia, Gleeson CJ and Heydon J , 16 May 2008).

Transcript of Special Leave Proceedings, Cesan v The Queen; Rivadavia v The Queen (High Court of Australia, Gleeson CJ and Heydon J , 16 May 2008), submission of Mr BW Walker SC.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie JJ and Basten JA , 5 September 2007) [189]–[190].

Ibid [190].

Ibid [194].

Ibid [189]–[190].

Ibid [200].

Ibid [194].

Ibid [203].

Ibid [200].

Ibid [203].

Ibid [202].

R v Betson [2004] 2 Cr App R (S) 52; Ibid [197].

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie JJ and Basten JA , 5 September 2007) [211].

Nudd v R [2006] HCA (Unreported, Gleeson CJ Gummow Kirby Hayne Callinan and Heydon JJ ), 9 March 2006) [7] ( Gleeson CJ ).

Weiss v The Queen (2005) 224 CLR 300, [45] ( Gleeson CJ Gummow Kirby Hayne Callinan and Heydon JJ ).

Ibid [44].

Transcript of Special Leave Proceedings, Cesan v The Queen; Rivadavia v The Queen (High Court of Australia, Gleeson CJ and Heydon J , 16 May 2008), submission of BW Walker SC).

Ibid [28].

Palmer Ben , ‘May the Judge Sleep’ (1927) 61 American Law Review 321, 325.

Cf Ibid 327–8.

See importance of this criterion in US context in cases such as Hummel v State, 617 N.W.2d 561 (2000).

769 N.Y.S.2d 490 (2003).

See also Hummel v State, 617 N.W.2d 561 (2000). See also Palmer, above n 23, 325.

See also Lofts Jason , ‘The Case of the ‘Sleeping Judge” (1987) May New Zealand Law Journal 166.

People v Degondea, 769 N.Y.S.2d 490 (2003) [5].

Turner v State, 2002 WL 31255583 (2002) (Unreported).

Young Justice PW , ‘Gentlemen You May Snore – Case Note; Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth)’ (2007) 81(12) Australian Law Journal 909.

Transcript of Special Leave Proceedings, Cesan v The Queen; Rivadavia v The Queen (High Court of Australia, Gleeson CJ and Heydon J , 16 May 2008).

Ibid, submission of Ms WJ Abraham QC.

Ibid ( Gleeson CJ ).

Ibid ( Heydon J ).

Young , above n 31.

But see Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie JJ and Basten JA , 5 September 2007) [103].

See for example discussion of who constitutes ‘the public’ in Parker Stephen , Courts and the Public, (1998) 12; Campbell Enid and Lee H.P. , The Australian Judiciary (2001) 278; whether ‘confidence’ can amount to a ‘construct’ in Chief Justice Murray Gleeson, ‘Public Confidence in the Courts’ (Paper presented at the Confidence in the Courts Conference, Canberra, 9–11 February 2007) 2; Note also Handsley Elizabeth , ‘Public Confidence in the Judiciary: A Red Herring for the Separation of Judicial Power’ [1998] 20 Sydney Law Review 183.

Kenny Justice Susan , ‘Maintaining Public Confidence in the Judiciary: A Precarious Equilibrium’ (1999) 25 Monash University Law Review 209, 210.

Chief Justice Murray Gleeson, ‘Public Confidence in the Judiciary’ (2002) 76 Australian Law Journal 558, 561.

Ibid.

Kenny , above n 39, 216.

Ebner v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (2000) 205 CLR 337 [6]–[7] ( Gleeson CJ McHugh Gummow and Hayne JJ ).

Tyler Tom , ‘Citizen Discontent with Legal Procedures: A Social Science Perspective on Civil Procedure Reform’ (1997) 45 American Journal of Comparative Law 871, 893. For a summary of some of the literature see Lind Edgar Allan and Tyler Tom , ‘Early Research in Procedural Justice’ in Tyler Tom (ed), Procedural Justice – Volume I (2005) 3.

Tyler , above n 44, 871–874. See also Tyler Tom , Why People Obey the Law (1990) 103.

Tyler , above n 44, 887–891.

Mashaw Jerry , ‘Administrative Due Process: The Quest for a Dignitary Theory’ (1981) 61 Boston University Law Review 885; See also Summers Robert ‘Evaluating and Improving Legal Processes – A Plea for ‘Process Values” (1974) 60 Cornell Law Review 1.

See generally, Wexler David and Winick Bruce , Law in a Therapeutic Key-Developments in Therapeutic Jurisprudence (1996); King Michael , Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Australia: New Directions in Courts, Legal Practice, Research and Legal Education’ (2006) 15 Journal of Judicial Administration 129.

Weiss v The Queen (2005) 224 CLR 300, [47] ( Gleeson CJ Gummow Kirby Hayne Callinan and Heydon JJ ).

Rosiers Nathalie Des , ‘From Telling to Listening: A Therapeutic Analysis of the Role of Courts in Minority-Majority Conflicts’ (2000) Spring Court Review 54, 62; Ronner Amy and Winick Bruce , ‘Silencing the Appellant's Voice: The Antitherapeutic Per Curiam Affirmance’ (2000) 24 Seattle University Law Review 499.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie JJ and Basten JA , 5 September 2007) [109].

Cf Weiss v The Queen (2005) 224 CLR 300, [38]–[40] ( Gleeson CJ Gummow Kirby Hayne Callinan and Heydon JJ ). Note also that Basten JA at the same time rejected as ‘ill-founded’ the appellants' submission that ‘the exercise of [federal] judicial power will miscarry if the ‘appearance’ of doing justice’ fails (Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie JJ and Basten JA , 5 September 2007) [103]–[104]).

Transcript of Special Leave Proceedings, Cesan v The Queen; Rivadavia v The Queen (High Court of Australia, Gleeson CJ and Heydon J , 16 May 2008), submission of Ms WJ Abraham QC).

Young , above n 31, 909. See also Palmer, above n 23, 324–5. Note also Transcript of Special Leave Proceedings, Cesan v The Queen; Rivadavia v The Queen (High Court of Australia, Gleeson CJ and Heydon J , 16 May 2008), submission of Ms WJ Abraham QC).

Transcript of Special Leave Proceedings, Cesan v The Queen; Rivadavia v The Queen (High Court of Australia, Gleeson CJ and Heydon J , 16 May 2008), submission of Ms WJ Abraham QC).

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie JJ and Basten JA , 5 September 2007) [31] and [32].

For example, Stathooles v Mount Isa Mines Limited [1997] 2 QdR 106.

Tranberg Heidi , ‘While You Were Sleeping – What to do about Sleepy Judges’ (1998) 20 University of Queensland Law Journal 130, 131.

Ham Learned , ‘Keep Dreaming’ (2007) January/February Utah Bar Journal 18.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie JJ and Basten JA , 5 September 2007) [41] ( Basten JA ).

Plato , The Republic (1st ed, 1955) 147 referred to in Pannick, above n 2, 224.