Saturday, 23 September, 2017 - 10:23
People Moves September 22, 2017
Woods joins TA board
The District Court is an intermediate trial court placing it between the Magistrates Court and the Supreme Court in the Western Australian courts hierarchy.
The District Court deals with serious criminal offences including serious assaults, sexual assaults, serious fraud and commercial theft, burglary and drug offences. The District Court also determines civil claims up to $750,000 and has unlimited jurisdiction in claims for damages for personal injury.
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NEWS: Tagged in Appointments November 1, 2024 | 01 Nov 2024 |
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NEWS: Tagged in Appointments April 26, 2024 | 26 Apr 2024 |
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NEWS: Tagged in Appointments December 1, 2023 | 01 Dec 2023 |
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NEW ROLE: Matthew Curwood, Judge | 30 Nov 2023 |
ClarificationIn the December 4 edition of Business News, it was wrongly stated that Alison Gaines was president of the Institute of Managers and Leaders WA when, in fact, she is president of Australian Institute of Management WA.
The corporate watchdog has banned a Perth woman from providing financial services, months after she was jailed for six years for stealing more than $1 million from a local building company.
A former Perth financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services and credit activities, after he was convicted of stealing more than $100,000 from his clients.
An accounting company director in Perth who stole more than $43,000 has been spared an immediate prison sentence.
Attorney General John Quigley has announced the appointment of Supreme Court justice Janine Pritchard as president of the State Administrative Tribunal for a five-year term, effective from June 4 2019.
A woman who stole more than $500,000 from her employer in part to fund holidays and home renovations has been sentenced to four years in a Western Australian prison.
A former insurance broker who admitted funnelling almost $200,000 owed to clients into his own bank accounts has been sentenced to two years and nine months imprisonment.
Two more contractors have admitted their involvement in Perth's North Metropolitan Health Service fraud scandal.
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Noted legal practitioner Natalie Whitby, who is married to state government minister Reece Whitby, has been appointed a judge on the state’s district court.
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A man linked to Mount Hawthorn businessman Chris Marco has lost his appeal to rid his responsibility to repay parties who suffered losses, claiming he was only the middleman.
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Judge
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Judge
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2022 | |
Judge
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2018 | |
Judge
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2021 | |
Judge
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2025 | |
Judge
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2023 | |
Judge
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2022 | |
Judge
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2020 | |
Judge
Principal Registrar (2004 to 2014) |
2016 | |
Judge
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2018 | |
Judge
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2022 | |
Judge
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2017 | |
Judge
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2020 | |
Judge
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2020 | |
Judge
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2021 | |
Judge
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2018 | |
Judge
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2017 | |
Judge
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2024 | |
Judge
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2025 | |
Judge
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2023 | |
Judge
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2020 | |
Judge
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2007 | |
Judge
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2024 | |
Judge
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2020 | |
Judge
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2017 | |
Judge, Chief Judge from 2020
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2005 | |
Judge
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2020 | |
Judge
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2023 | |
Attorney General
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2017 |
Name | Position | Year Started | Year Ended |
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Judge
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2023 | 2025 | |
Judge
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2017 | 2024 | |
Judge
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2019 | 2023 | |
Judge
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2021 | 2023 | |
Judge
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2011 | 2021 | |
Judge since 2010
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2009 | 2018 | |
Justice
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2004 | 2016 | |
Principal Registrar
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2004 | 2014 | |
Usher
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2010 | 2011 | |
Judge's Associate
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2009 | 2010 | |
Judge, Chief Judge since 1995
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1982 | 2003 | |
Judge's Associate
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2001 | 2002 |