Judge Baumann of Australia’s Federal Circuit Court Visits Badilag
Judge Michael Baumann from the Federal Circuit Court of Australia sharing experiences on case management system with Badilag and Badilum officials
Jakarta | Badilag.net/english
Judge Michael Bauman of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia paid a visit to the Supreme Court Secretariat Building located at Jalan Ahmad Yani, Central Jakarta on Tuesday (24/9/2013). Badilag (Directorate General for the Religious Courts) was one of his targets.
The aim of the Australian judge’s visit was to study the case management systems developed by Indonesian courts, CTS of Badilum (General Courts) and SIADPA of Badilag. He also shared Australia’s experience in managing case administration, especially that of the Federal Circuit Court.
Arrived at Badilag around 10am, Judge Baumann was warmly welcomed by DG Badilag, Purwosusilo and other top officials from Badilag and Badilum. A day before, Judge Bauman visited the Supreme Court and met with Justices in the morning and visited South Jakarta Religious Court in the afternoon.
Baumann said that, different from Indonesia, Australia has two court structures; federal courts and state courts. Australia began to establish the federal courts in 1901. The Federal Circuit Court, where Bauman sits as a judge, is a trial court and was established in 2000. This court has jurisdictions over civil, family law, commercial, bankruptcy, copyright, industrial, admiralty, immigration and discrimination cases. .
“We don’t handle criminal cases,” Baumann said.
The Federal Circuit Court is located in 23 regions across Australia with 65 sitting judges. One case is handled by one judge.
“We receive approximately 21,000 cases every year. 4,000 cases are commercial cases and the rest 17,000 cases are family law cases,” he added.
Regarding the case management, according to Baumann, Australia has a unique management different from Indonesia. “Our case management is unique because one single case is handled by one judge who is responsible for examining and deciding the case. The responsibility of the case management is on the judges, not registrars,” Baumann continued.
After sharing his court experience, Baumann visited Badilum’s CTS, Badilag’s SIADPA Laboratory, Badilag’s SIMPEG and the Religious Courts Gallery. “It’s very interesting,” Baumann said after concluding his visit.
DG Badilag, Purwosusilo, thanked for Judge Baumann visit since this enabled both parties from different countries and different legal systems could learn from each other. DG Badilag hopes this relationship can be maintained in the future.
“We gain a lot of new lessons from Mr. Baumann without having to visit Australia. However, we will learn even more if we have an opportunity to see directly how the case management system works in the Federal Circuit Court,” Purwosusilo said.
(Achmad Cholil)