New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SUPREME COURT ACT 1970 - SECT 28

28 List Judges

(1) The Chief Justice may, by instrument in writing, designate a Judge to be a List Judge within a Division.

(2) A List Judge within a Division has (subject to any direction from the Chief Justice or the Chief Judge of the Division) the function of managing such class or classes of proceedings in the Division as may be specified in the instrument designating the Judge to be a List Judge or by the rules.

(3) A Judge may be designated to be a List Judge within a Division under this section even though the Judge is not appointed or nominated to the Division. Any such Judge is taken to be appointed to the Division for the purposes of exercising his or her functions as a List Judge.

(4) An instrument designating a Judge to be a List Judge may specify a title for the Judge to use while exercising the functions of a List Judge.

(5) The Chief Justice may at any time, by instrument in writing, revoke a Judge's designation as a List Judge.

(6) The designation of a Judge to be a List Judge under this section does not affect the rank, title, status and precedence as a Judge that he or she had immediately before any such designation.