Program sees judges trade places

This month the District Court of Queensland will undertake its first judicial exchange with the District Court of Western Australia.

From 10 to 28 November, Western Australia’s Judge Troy will act as a judge in Queensland, while Judge Burnett AM, Judge Administrator of the District Court of Queensland, will sit in Western Australia.

The Judicial Exchange Program is an opportunity for the judges to examine practices for listing, managing and hearing matters in other State jurisdictions through firsthand experience of sitting in those jurisdictions and also sitting with judges from other jurisdictions in Queensland.

The Program provides professional development of judges, as well as improving efficiencies in the administration of the jurisdiction, to the benefit of the courts involved in the exchange, court users and the community more broadly.

Judge Troy was appointed Judge of District Court in March 2016, having been called to the Bar of England and Wales in October 1990 and admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in Western Australia in June 2002. He practised as a Barrister in Cardiff and Newport in the United Kingdom.and at Francis Burt Chambers in Perth.

During his period of practice in Australia he also worked in the Commonwealth and State Directors of Public Prosecutions.

He is currently the Chair of District Court of of Western Australia Bench Book Committee.