Term | Main definition |
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Taking a Case Out of the List | Removal of a hearing from that day’s schedule. |
Tariff | Level of contact ordered by the Court. |
Therapeutic Jurisprudence | Model of jurisprudence in which the traditional role of a court is discarded and the judge’s role is not to uphold justice and the rule of law but to secure the best therapeutic outcome for the client. |
Threshold | Point at which the neglect or ill-treatment of a child justifies the mandatory intervention of the state. |
Tipstaff | Enforcement officer of the high court. |
Tomlin Order | Form of consent order designed to stay further action, but which is enforceable by either party if the other defaults. |
Transcript | Official verbatim text version of a judgment. |
Transfer of Proceedings | Change of proceedings from one court to another |
Transfer of Residence | Child Arrangements Order which reverses the roles of the resident and non-resident parents. |
Turnbull Direction | A judge’s caveat that an eye-witness’s identification of an individual may not always be reliable and will depend on a number of variables. |