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| Warren | Feb 8 2009, 12:17 PM Post #1 |
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Judge suspended after charged with assault By Jeremy Roberts August 07, 2007 02:00am Article from: The Australian SOUTH Australian judge Sydney Tilmouth has been suspended from hearing criminal cases after being charged with aggravated assault. This arose from an alleged domestic violence incident on Saturday night in Adelaide, it emerged yesterday. Judge Tilmouth was granted police bail and will appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court at a date to be fixed. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of three years' jail. Such an outcome would almost certainly end his distinguished legal career. Judge Tilmouth, 57, was appointed to the District Court of South Australia in June 2005. He took silk as a Queen's Counsel in 1989 and has appeared before the High Court. District Court chief judge Terry Worthington said yesterday that he suspended Judge Tilmouth from the criminal bench pending finalisation of the assault charge. "I confirm that Judge Tilmouth was arrested and charged with aggravated assault arising out of a report of a domestic disturbance on Saturday, August 4," Judge Worthington said. Judge Tilmouth remains available to hear civil cases. No details of the alleged domestic violence incident have been released. But according to the Criminal Law Consolidation Act, an assault charge is upgraded to "aggravated" if the alleged violence involved a child, a police officer or a weapon. The offence carries a maximum sentence of three years, increased to four if threats or weapons were involved. Judge Tilmouth is understood to have lived with a female partner for the past two years. He was married before that and had two daughters in that relationship. He now faces the prospect of having the aggravated assault case heard before a fellow judge of the District Court. The case will be sent to the District Court if the alleged assault involved serious injury to the victim. Otherwise it would be heard in a Magistrates Court, local lawyers said yesterday. The charging and suspension of Judge Tilmouth stunned Adelaide's legal community. As a barrister he forged a reputation for "sticking up for the underdog", according to Adelaide lawyer Jeremy Moore. Mr Moore said Judge Tilmouth "played a very significant role" in fighting a test case in the High Court against the indefinite detention of asylum-seekers. The case was lost but Mr Moore, who also fought immigration detention cases, said it added to the growing pressure on the federal Government to release women and children from immigration detention. As a barrister Judge Tilmouth also represented members of the Bakhtiyari family as they fought the federal Government's attempts to deport them to Pakistan. The family claimed to be Afghani and reportedly returned to Afghanistan after being deported in January 2005. According to another senior lawyer, Judge Tilmouth was instrumental in setting up the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement in Adelaide in the late 1970s. He is also a published legal academic. He wrote Australian Criminal Trial Directions, a manual for how judges direct juries. |
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