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Western Australian Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Western Australia is the highest state court in the Australian State of Western Australia. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters (although it usually only hears matters involving sums of A$750,000 or more), and hears the most serious criminal matters. Structure The Supreme Court consists of a General Division (equivalent to the Trial Division in other states) and the Court of Appeal. The General Division deals with serious criminal matters, civil cases where the amount claimed is greater than $750,000, criminal appeals from the Magistrates Court and appeals from other bodies such as the State Administrative Tribunal. The General Division sits in the David Malcolm Justice Centre for civil proceedings and the District Court of WA Building and the original Supreme Court Building for criminal proceedings. The Court of Appeal hears both civil and criminal appeals from cases in the General Division, the District Court and the St ...
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Façade
A façade () (also written facade) is generally the front part or exterior of a building. It is a Loanword, loan word from the French language, French (), which means 'frontage' or 'face'. In architecture, the façade of a building is often the most important aspect from a design standpoint, as it sets the tone for the rest of the building. From the engineering perspective, the façade is also of great importance due to its impact on Efficient energy use, energy efficiency. For historical façades, many local zoning regulations or other laws greatly restrict or even forbid their alteration. Etymology The word is a loanword from the French , which in turn comes from the Italian language, Italian , from meaning 'face', ultimately from post-classical Latin . The earliest usage recorded by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is 1656. Façades added to earlier buildings It was quite common in the Georgian architecture, Georgian period for existing houses in English towns to be give ...
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Australian Dollar
The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of Australia, including its external territories: Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island. It is officially used as currency by three independent Pacific Island states: Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu. It is legal tender in Australia.''Reserve Bank Act 1959'', s.36(1)
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Within Australia, it is almost always abbreviated with the ($), with A$ or AU$ sometimes used to distinguish it from other

John Vaughan (Australian Judge)
John Vaughan may refer to: Gentry *John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery (1574/75–1634), Welsh courtier and MP for Carmarthenshire 1601, 1621 *John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery (1639–1713), Governor of Jamaica and President of the Royal Society, MP for Carmarthen 1661 and Carmarthenshire 1679–86 *John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (1667–1721) *John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (1695–1741), MP for Cardiganshire 1727–34 *John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne (1769–1831), MP for Cardigan 1796–1818 *Sir John Vaughan (puisne judge) (1768–1839), baron of the Exchequer and justice of the Common Pleas *John Vaughan, 8th Earl of Lisburne (1918–2014) Military *Sir John Vaughan (governor) (d.1643), army officer and military governor of Derry 1611–1643, and MP for County Donegal in 1613 and 1634 * John Vaughan (British Army officer, born 1871) (1871–1956), British cavalry officer commanded the 3rd Cavalry Division in the First World War *Sir John Vaughan (British Army offic ...
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Janine Pritchard
Janine Pritchard is a justice with the Supreme Court of Western Australia. She is an alumnus of both Australian National University and the University of London. Controversy In 2013, Justice Pritchard dismissed a West Australian Stolen Generations compensation claim."WA Supreme Court in an unbelievable decision dismisses Stolen Generations compensation claim"
Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty. ''The Stringer''. 29 December 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2019 This was after the official apology on 13 February 2008 by the then Prim ...
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Andrew Beech (judge)
Andrew Robert Beech (born 17 April 1962) is a justice with the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He is a graduate of the Bachelor of Civil Law program at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made four appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club in 1987. On 24 May 2017, Justice Beech was appointed to the Court of Appeal A court of appeals, also called a court of appeal, appellate court, appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of t .... References 1962 births Living people Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Australian cricketers Oxford University cricketers Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Australian Senior Counsel {{Australia-law-bio-stub ...
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Robert Mitchell (judge)
Robert Mitchell may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Robert Mitchell (engraver) (1820–1873), English engraver * Robert Boyed Mitchell (1919–2002), Australian painter * Robert Mitchell (jazz pianist) (born 1971), British jazz pianist and composer * Robert Mitchell (organist) (1912–2009), American organist and silent film accompanist Politics Australia * Rob Mitchell (Queensland politician) (born 1948), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Rob Mitchell (Victorian politician) (born 1967), member of the Australian House of Representatives Canada * Robert Mitchell (Prince Edward Island politician), local Canadian politician * Robert C. Mitchell (1931–2007), politician in Ontario, Canada * Bob Mitchell (Saskatchewan politician) (1936–2016), lawyer, civil servant and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada * Robert Weld Mitchell (1915–1994), lawyer, member of the Canadian House of Commons for Ontario New Zealand * Robert Mitchell (New Zealand politician), elected ...
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Robert Mazza
Robert Mazza is a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and former judge of the District Court of Western Australia. Before his appointment he founded his own law firm. He is a graduate of the University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazza, Robert Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Judges of the District Court of Western Australia 21st-century Australian judges ...
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Graeme Murphy
Graeme Lloyd Murphy AO (born 2 November 1950) is an Australian choreographer. With his fellow dancer (and wife since 2004) Janet Vernon, he guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and best-known dance companies. Biography Murphy was born in Melbourne, and grew up in Tasmania, where he took dance classes with Kenneth Gillespie in Launceston. He began his career as a student at the Australian Ballet School at the age of fourteen. In 1968 he became a dancer with the Australian Ballet where he had opportunities to choreograph. He toured America with the Australian Ballet in 1970–1971 and created his first ballet, ''Ecco le Diavole'' (Ecco). Ecco was presented at Melbourne's Princess Theatre in July 1971. The piece was set to music by Nino Rota and featured dancers Roslyn Anderson, Roma Egan, Janet Vernon, and Wendy Walker. Later, Murphy danced with the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet (now Birmingham Royal Ballet), and Les Ballets Félix Blaska in ...
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Michael Buss
Michael John Buss (born 4 June 1955) is the President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He was appointed to that position on 18 July 2016, having previously been a Judge of the Supreme Court. Education Buss was born in New South Wales. He moved to Western Australia and completed studies in jurisprudence and law at the University of Western Australia. Legal career He initially practised as a solicitor in Perth. He joined the independent bar in Western Australia in 1987, making appearances in the High Court of Australia. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of ... in December 1993. He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court (including the Court of Appeal) on 1 February 2006 and as President of the Co ...
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Frederick Bedford
Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford, (24 December 1838 – 30 January 1913) was a senior Royal Navy officer and Governor of Western Australia from 24 March 1903 to 22 April 1909. Naval career Bedford was born on 24 December 1838, and joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14. He later served in the Crimean War. Bedford was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station in 1892: in 1894, Bedford was involved in an action against Nana Olomu Chief of Benin. Brohomi was burnt down in 1894 by a combined force of the British Naval Brigade and the Niger Coast Protectorate Force under Bedford and the Consul-General Ralph Moor. It is believed over 500–600 slaves were freed during the operation. On 22 February 1895, a British naval force, under the command of Bedford at the behest of the Royal Niger Company, granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria in 1886, laid siege on Brass, the chief city of the Ljo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delt ...
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St Georges Terrace
St Georges Terrace (colloquially known as "The Terrace") is the main street in the city of Perth, Western Australia. It runs parallel to the Swan River and forms the major arterial road through the central business district. Its western end is marked by the Barracks Arch near Parliament House across the Mitchell Freeway; the eastern end joins Adelaide Terrace at the intersection with Victoria Avenue. Naming St Georges Terrace was named after St George's Cathedral. Originally, houses occupied by clergy of the cathedral and lay clerks of the cathedral choir constituted a substantial portion of the Terrace. Some of these houses such as The Deanery remain, however the majority of these were demolished in the 1960s. The apostrophe was removed from the name in the 1980s. Streetscapes The level of St Georges Terrace is in effect at the top of a ridge, where the short roads that descend southerly towards Perth Water all provide views of the Swan River, including Barrack Stre ...
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Archibald Burt
Sir Archibald Paull Burt QC (1 September 1810 – 21 November 1879) was a British lawyer, politician and judge. He grew up on the island of Saint Christopher in the West Indies, where both he and his father owned slaves. He studied law in England and returned to Saint Christopher where he served as speaker of the house of assembly, attorney-general and chief justice. In 1861, Burt was appointed as the colony of Western Australia's inaugural chief justice. He held the position until his death in 1879 and was the patriarch of one of the so-called "six hungry families" of the colony. Early life Archibald Paull Burt was born in 1810, in Saint Christopher (present day Saint Kitts and Nevis) in the West Indies. He was the son of George Henry Burt, sugar planter and Speaker of the House Assembly of Saint Christopher. He was educated in England where he qualified as a lawyer at the Middle Temple. He returned to his native island in 1835 where he practised as a barrister. Following in h ...
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