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Judicial and Other Legal Professionals (not covered elsewhere)

Judicial and Other Legal Professionals (not covered elsewhere) includes jobs like Family Court Registrar, Family Law Mediator, Judicial Registrar, Legal Researcher, Legal Officer, and Parliamentary Counsel.

What the job involves

  • Researches statutes and previous court decisions relevant to cases

  • Decides penalties and sentences within statutory limits, such as fines, bonds and detention, awards damages in civil matters, and issues court orders

  • Advises government of legal, constitutional and parliamentary matters and drafts bills and attends committee meetings during consideration of bills

  • Advises agents on legal and technical matters