This site is designed as a resource for all who are interested in the organization and management of law courts and tribunals. It contains copies of and references to significant writing on the topic. Where copyright permits the site contains full text of the work and/or reference to the www site where it is available. The editors' introductions include brief outlines of the works listed on the site.

The collection grew out of materials gathered by the late Professor Lindsay Curtis between 1990-2000 chiefly for use in postgraduate courses in court policy and administration offered by the University of Wollongong. Those courses concentrated on three topics- principles of judicial administration, the management of courts and decision making in courts and other tribunals. Interest was not confined to courts. Large parts of the collection relate to tribunals and organizations offering alternative forms of dispute resolution.

The courses were aimed at court managers, judicial officers and tribunal members from all Australian jurisdictions, and increasingly attracted interest from Asia and the Pacific. The collection thus has an Australian common law focus, though it has always drawn on the best of work published in other English-speaking countries. The increasing globalisation of judicial systems as well as demand from other countries has led to the addition of a collection of writings on global influences on court and tribunal organization and management. This includes a growing collection of writing beyond the national and international standards developed to 2000, from various European and American countries. While the colleciton retains its Anglophone orientation, it is expanding the scope of writings from other countries which are available in English.

The other topic added to the Wollongong collection refers to the organization and management of the trial or hearing procedure to achieve justice and efficiency. Both topics received consideration in the postgraduate courses but the literature is just beginning.

The site is dedicated to Professor Curtis. Without his creative instinct, enthusiasm and belief in the importance of research, writing and teaching in the area there would be no collection. The intellectual foundations of the collection are his.

The site has been prepared by former members of the University of Wollongong Centre for Court Policy & Administration, now subsumed in the Legal Intersections Research Centre which has assumed responsibility for the site. It includes references to all the materials used by Professor Curtis in his courses and more. He cannot be blamed for any updating of the collection since 2000, nor for materials included outside the topics areas of his courses, but tribute is paid to him for the core of the collection.

We hope that you will take up our invitation to contribute to the site with discussion and suggestions for additions to the collection. Our hope is that by offering the collection online users will be encouraged to add to it so that it may become a living site for the exchange of news and opinion on court and tribunal management. Comments on all topics are welcome as are suggestions for additions to the site.