GOING TO COURT A DISCUSSION PAPER ON CIVIL JUSTICE IN VICTORIA PETER A SALLMANN, CROWN COUNSEL AND RICHARD T WRIGHT, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, CIVIL JUSTICE REVIEW PROJECT APRIL, 2000 How to make comments and submissions We would encourage comments and submissions on the discussion paper. They can be sent to the Department of Justice at the address below: Civil Justice Review Project GPO Box 4356QQ Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 Comments and submissions can also be sent by e-mail to:
[email protected] The discussion can be read and downloaded from the Department of Justice homepage www.justice.vic.gov.au Adobe Acrobat® Reader will be required. Peter Sallmann LLB (Melbourne), M.S.A.J. (The American University), M.Phil (Cambridge) is Victorian Crown Counsel, formerly Director of the Civil Justice Review Project, Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration and a Commissioner of the Law Reform Commission of Victoria. Peter is admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He has held a number of academic posts in law and criminology, and served on a variety of Boards and Inquiries, including the Premier’s Drug Advisory Council (the Penington Inquiry) and has published widely on judicial administration and related topics. Richard Wright B.Ec (Hons) (La Trobe) LLB (Melbourne) is Associate Director of the Civil Justice Review Project, formerly Chairman of the Residential Tenancies Tribunals and Senior Referee of the Small Claims Tribunal, Executive Director of the Law Reform Commission of Victoria, Management Consultant in the public and private sectors and has held policy advisory positions in the Australian Tariff Board, Prices Justification Tribunal and the federal Departments of Industrial Relations and Prime Minister and Cabinet.