The NT’s acting Chief Judge was forced to issue an extraordinary “correction” earlier this week after an email from the courts’ deputy registrar stated there would be no new Local Court judges appointed “in the foreseeable future” necessitating cancelled court lists in an already over-stretched system, which kicked off allegations in legal circles that the CLP Government had rejected the appointment of new judges on the grounds that their alleged politics did not align with the ruling party’s.

It remains unclear if any potential judicial candidates were rejected by the government and questions remain over why it has not appointed two new judges after budgeting $3.8 million for them and support staff more than four months ago in May.

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