Jessica Kerr

‘Judges need better education’. Seeing those words headlining Gabrielle Appleby’s explainer of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) ground-breaking Report was a proud moment for those of us championing judicial education as a ‘vitally important form of regulation’. While education is a recurring theme in what the ALRC calls the ‘institutional architecture’ of impartial judging, two related recommendations in the category of ‘institutional supports and safeguards’ are specifically directed to investment in this area.