Australian court interpretation

A. Federal courts: Federal courts (collectively)

Classification by level

1. County Primary Court

2. District Court City Intermediate Court

3. Supreme Court State High Court

4. High Court National Supreme Court

B. the arbitral tribunal:

By category

1.CAT (civil and administrative court) Civil and administrative arbitration court (administrative is an appeal to federal government departments, such as IRS and Immigration Bureau).

2.CTTT (Consumer, Trade and Leasing Court) Arbitration Tribunal for Consumer Goods Industry Leasing.

3. Immigration Review Arbitration Tribunal

Criminal cases: criminal courts

There must be police involved.

As the prosecutor's prosecution,

There are 65,438+02 juries in serious criminal cases. The jury must be a citizen, know English and know nothing about law (people with a law degree or lawyer qualification cannot be members of the jury). The jury voted unanimously to decide whether the suspect was guilty or not. If they are guilty, the judge will sentence them. If they still can't reach an agreement, they can dissolve the jury and re-select at random.

The jury in a civil case consists of at most six people.

Inside the court:

Judges, court officials, supervisors and assistant judges.

Lawyer: trial lawyer, public prosecutor (director of public prosecution)? Attorney of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Crown Prosecutor = Police Prosecutor (on behalf of the federal government)

Attorney's fees, ordinary lawyers generally 500-800 Australian dollars per day; Junior barrister $ 1000-2000/ day; Senior counsel $5,000/day (usually involving homicide, drug trafficking and other cases, there is no death penalty in Australia)

The dock, that is, the dock, only imprisoned prisoners can appear in the dock, and suspects who meet the bail conditions usually do not have to stand in the dock, but can sit in the public gallery; Or the defendant can sit in a bar and defend himself without a lawyer.

Court interpreters usually sit next to the defendant and translate the speeches of judges and lawyers to the defendant in a low voice. Cross-passing is only used when the defendant needs to defend himself. Defendants often go to the witness box to be questioned by lawyers. When translating for the witness, pass it on all the way. Jurors must know English and do not need an interpreter.

A hearing in Hong Kong and Macao is called a hearing, and the mainland translates it as a trial.

Australia and Chinese mainland have different punishment methods;

1. Good behavior guarantee: no deposit is required, which has nothing to do with the deposit, that is, it is guaranteed not to make mistakes within a certain period of time. If you make a mistake, you must be punished for several crimes. If you don't make a mistake, you will be given a lighter punishment. (For misdemeanor suspects with good records)

2. Weekend prison: normal work and life at ordinary times, serving sentences on weekends.