To Judge is ‘To Sleep: Perchance to Dream

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To Judge is ‘To Sleep: Perchance to Dream

Volume 33, Issue 3https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X0803300305

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References

1.

Shakespeare

William

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

2.

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.

3.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie

JJ

and Basten

JA

, 5 September 2007).

4.

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).

5.

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.

6.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie

JJ

and Basten

JA

, 5 September 2007) [189]–[190].

7.

Ibid [190].

8.

Ibid [194].

9.

Ibid [189]–[190].

10.

Ibid [200].

11.

Ibid [194].

12.

Ibid [203].

13.

Ibid [200].

14.

Ibid [203].

15.

Ibid [202].

16.

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

17.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie

JJ

and Basten

JA

, 5 September 2007) [211].

18.

Nudd v R [2006] HCA (Unreported, Gleeson

CJ

Gummow

Kirby

Hayne

Callinan

and Heydon

JJ

), 9 March 2006) [7] ( Gleeson

CJ

).

19.

Weiss v The Queen (2005) 224 CLR 300, [45] ( Gleeson

CJ

Gummow

Kirby

Hayne

Callinan

and Heydon

JJ

).

20.

Ibid [44].

21.

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).

22.

Ibid [28].

23.

Palmer

Ben

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

24.

Cf Ibid 327–8.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

See also Lofts

Jason

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Young

Justice PW

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

32.

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).

33.

Ibid, submission of Ms WJ Abraham QC.

34.

Ibid ( Gleeson

CJ

).

35.

Ibid ( Heydon

J

).

36.

Young , above n 31.

37.

But see Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie

JJ

and Basten

JA

, 5 September 2007) [103].

38.

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.

39.

Kenny

Justice Susan

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

40.

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

41.

Ibid.

42.

Kenny , above n 39, 216.

43.

Ebner v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (2000) 205 CLR 337 [6]–[7] ( Gleeson

CJ

McHugh Gummow and Hayne

JJ

).

44.

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.

45.

Tyler , above n 44, 871–874. See also Tyler

Tom

, Why People Obey the Law (1990) 103.

46.

Tyler , above n 44, 887–891.

47.

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.

48.

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.

49.

Weiss v The Queen (2005) 224 CLR 300, [47] ( Gleeson

CJ

Gummow Kirby Hayne Callinan and Heydon

JJ

).

50.

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.

51.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie

JJ

and Basten

JA

, 5 September 2007) [109].

52.

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]).

53.

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).

54.

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).

55.

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).

56.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie

JJ

and Basten

JA

, 5 September 2007) [31] and [32].

57.

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

58.

Tranberg

Heidi

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

59.

Ham

Learned

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

60.

Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273 (Unreported, Grove Howie

JJ

and Basten

JA

, 5 September 2007) [41] ( Basten

JA

).

61.

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