'This work brings together in one volume a rich talent of thoughtful discussions of the long-term foundation of our liberal democracy, the judges and their courts … the book is well bound and excellently presented.' Dr Andrew Cannon
Part I: The Judge, the Judiciary and the Court: 1. The judge, the judiciary and the court: the individual, the collective and the institution Gabrielle Appleby and Andrew Lynch; 2. Re-examining the judicial function in Australia Joe McIntyre; 3. The Chief Justice: under relational and institutional pressure Gabrielle Appleby and Heather Roberts; Part II: Debates and Challenges to the Judicial Role: 4. Dismantling the diversity deficit: towards a more inclusive Australian Judiciary Brian Opeskin; 5. Technology and the judicial role Monika Zalnieriute and Felicity Bell; 6. Emotion work as judicial work Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack; 7. The persistent pejorative: judicial activism Tanya Josev; Part III: The Judiciary as a Collective: 8. Judicial collegiality Sarah Murray; 9. Individual judicial style and institutional norms Andrew Lynch; 10. Values and judicial difference in the High Court Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan; Part IV: Perceptions: 11. Judges and the media Matthew Groves; 12. The 'good judge' in Australian popular television culture Penny Crofts.