Judicial Self-Governance in the New Millennium

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Tim Bunjevac

   Pages 1-7

3. Judicial Control of Court Administration

   • Tim Bunjevac

   Pages 9-26

4. Models of Court Governance

   • Tim Bunjevac

   Pages 27-54

5. The Court Governance Policy Framework

   • Tim Bunjevac

   Pages 55-86

6. Court Services Victoria

   • Tim Bunjevac

   Pages 87-104

7. Conclusion

   • Tim Bunjevac

   Pages 105-129

This book is a comparative study of judge-managed court systems across Australia, Europe and North America. This book makes an original contribution to the literature of court administration by providing a framework for examining court-service models of judicial councils, the policymaking bodies of courts and tribunals. This book promises to assist court administration scholars, judicial leaders, and policymakers in devising more effective organizational solutions to the contemporary challenges of judicial self-governance. 


The author Dr. Tim Bunjevac offers a nuanced elaboration of judicial accountability in court administration and a model institutional framework of court governance, comparing key Australian and international models of court administration, including the Australian Federal and two state court systems, Irish, English, Canadian and Dutch models. With a close case study, the author puts his sharpest focus on the Victoria, Australia, which introduced a judicial council in 2014. 


This book does an innovative job of proposing a new elaboration of judicial accountability in court administration. This book proposes that the likely success of any court system reform ultimately depends on the quality of the interaction between the courts, government, and other justice system stakeholders, which must be rooted in the concepts of organizational transparency and administrative accountability.

• Judicial review
• Judicial administration
• Self-Governance
• Constitutional law
• Administrative law
• Public law
• Civil law
• Court governance
• judicial self-governance
• Court administration
• Judicial councils
• court management
• Judicial institutions
• judicial bureaucracies
• Comparative law

• Faculty of Law, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  Tim Bunjevac

Dr Tim Bunjevac is a Senior Lecturer in Law. Dr Bunjevac is an award-winning Australian expert in court governance and judicial administration. He has more than 15 years of experience as a lawyer, court system policy expert and legal academic. He is the Managing Editor of the International Journal for Court Administration, a leading international journal in this area.


Dr Bunjevac has published research in the transformation of court governance and has been well-received in Australia and internationally. He has also been a barrister and solicitor since 2003 and provided legal advice to public and commercial entities, including ASX listed companies, government agencies and government instrumentalities.


Prior to joining RMIT, Dr Bunjevac was a law lecturer at Victoria University Law School and a legal advisor at the Victorian Department of Justice, where he advised the Attorney-General on policy matters affecting the operationsof the courts and tribunals.

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