Quicker or dead : can committals be saved from procedural inertia? / Justice Jim Henry.

Cairns, Qld. : Supreme Court of Queensland, 2026.

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Queensland. -- Magistrates Court.

Criminal procedure -- Queensland.

My particular focus this evening is on the long delays nowadays experienced in advancing serious criminal charges through committal proceedings in the Magistrates Court. It is a problem hiding in plain sight, seemingly so entrenched that we have become desensitised to its gravity. Some discussion of our system of committal proceedings is required to explain the problem. - extract from presentation.

The Honourable Justice James Henry, "Quicker or dead: can committals be saved from procedural inertia?", presentation given at at the Cairns Judiciary 2025/26 CPD Series, Cairns, 12 March 2026.

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