This book is for lawyers, judges, academics, and anyone interested in the contemporary state of the Australian judiciary. Through the lenses of judicial leadership, diversity, collegiality, dissent, style, technology, the media and popular culture, it analyses how judges work individually and as a collective to protect and promote judicial values.

Part I: The Judge, the Judiciary and the Court: 1. The judge, the judiciary and the court: the individual, the collective and the institution Gabrielle Appleby and Andrew Lynch; 2. Re-examining the judicial function in Australia Joe McIntyre; 3. The Chief Justice: under relational and institutional pressure Gabrielle Appleby and Heather Roberts; Part II: Debates and Challenges to the Judicial Role: 4. Dismantling the diversity deficit: towards a more inclusive Australian Judiciary Brian Opeskin; 5. Technology and the judicial role Monika Zalnieriute and Felicity Bell; 6. Emotion work as judicial work Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack; 7. The persistent pejorative: judicial activism Tanya Josev; Part III: The Judiciary as a Collective: 8. Judicial collegiality Sarah Murray; 9. Individual judicial style and institutional norms Andrew Lynch; 10. Values and judicial difference in the High Court Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan; Part IV: Perceptions: 11. Judges and the media Matthew Groves; 12. The 'good judge' in Australian popular television culture Penny Crofts.