Parliament announced the appointment of 111 new judges for Federal Courts on June 23, 2016. This is the largest number of appointees to the judiciary since 2010, taking the number of judges at Federal Courts to 295, a significant increase from 56 in 2005/6. Two judges were appointed to the Supreme Court, 34 judges to the High Court and 75 to the Federal First Instance Court.
Screening to find competent appointees took more than a year and involved 3,000 applicants.
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