The Remaking of the Courts

[Sarah Murray] focuses on the challenges of accommodating non-adversarial mechanisms within Australia’s constitutional framework. She poses a question that should concern anybody interested in the administration of justice in Australia: how can courts adopt innovative practices without losing their constitutional identity? Read review essay… - Anna Olijnyk, UNSW Law Journal, October 2015 As the title indicates, this book examines the extent to which the Australian constitution, in particular Chapter III of the constitution, can accommodate less adversarial practice by the judiciary. … the author has written an interesting and stimulating monograph on a topic that will only rise in prominence. Read full review… - David Kim, InPrint, Law Institute Journal Victoria, October 2014 This is a useful book for all lawyers, not the least because in the context of considering judicial initiatives towards less-adversarial processes the author clearly and comprehensively examines the Federal and State constitutional precepts affecting the courts. … the clarity given to abstract constitutional principles by their application to real or proposed examples of less-adversarial curial reforms makes this book a valuable resource for practitioners, as well as academics, more so as it is current as at 13 June 2013. The author has achieved her aim of stimulating discussion and explores whether, and to what extent, there is room in the Constitution for judicial and curial change to accommodate a less-adversarial approach. Read full review… - Garry McGrath, Australian Bar Review, July 2014

Dr. Sarah Murray is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia where she teaches Constitutional Law and researches in the areas of Public Law and legal institutional change. Her PhD thesis was awarded the 2011 Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Law by Monash University. She is the Western Australian Convenor and a co-opted Council Member of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and a Western Australian Convenor of the Electoral Regulation Research Network.

Sarah has published widely, including being the editor of Constitutional Perspectives on an Australian Republic - Essays in Honour of Professor George Winterton (Federation Press, 2010). She is a chapter contributor to Tomorrow’s Federation (Federation Press, 2012) and is also a co-author in the latest edition of Winterton’s Australian Federal Constitutional Law: Commentary & Materials (Thomson Reuters, 2013).