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Editor’s picks

• Magistrates to be called judges under historic change to Local Court Act | Communities and Justice
   

  • Out with the Magistrates, in with the Judges in title shake-up - Law Society Journal
     

• Peter Brereton SC to join NSW Supreme Court bench | Communities and Justice
   

• Sneaky, excessive and unjustified: why Labor’s electoral reforms are vulnerable to constitutional challenge | Anne Twomey | The Guardian

   

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• Could South Australia’s proposed ban on political donations run into trouble in the courts? — Australian Public Law

   

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