A Queensland and Western Australian judge have swapped courtrooms in an experiment to find better ways of doing things through firsthand experience.
Queensland Justice Walter Sofronoff has helped create the first judge-swap in Australian Courts, by exchanging places with his colleague Michael Buss in Western Australia.
Justice Sofronoff found one thing WA's Appeal Court does better, by filtering cases through the appellant persuading a two-judge panel their argument has merit.
Justice Sofronoff says “I learned that by going over there and speaking to people and seeing how they do it… And you wouldn't read that in a book or a magazine or a case report… It's lore and you need to go to the place where it's happening.”
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