The NSW Attorney General today announced that judicial officers in the Local Court will now be known as "judge" rather than "magistrate".
This will not, presumably, prevent self-represented litigants from calling them "your Worship" (abolished in 2004) or, on some happy occasions, "your Majesty".
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