AGY-4771 | Cootamundra Court of General and Quarter Sessions

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The Cootamundra Court of General and Quarter Sessions was established on or about 5 November, 1880.(1) The Courts of General and Quarter Sessions were arranged into districts. The Cootamundra Court was placed in the South-Western Division where it remained until 1955 when it was transferred to the Southern Division [II] (2). In 1967 the Cootamundra Court was transferred from the Southern Divsion to the the South-Western Division (3) where it stayed until the system of Quarter Sessions was discontinued. The role of the Court of Quarter Sessions was to hear less serious criminal cases. The dates of hearings at the Cootamundra Court were proclaimed in the NSW Government Gazette. The court ceased on 1 July 1973 when Courts of General and Quarter Sessions were abolished and the district courts took on the Criminal as well as the civil jurisdiction. Cootamundra Court of General and Quarter Sessions became a Court in the District Court Criminal and Special Jurisdiction South and South-Western Division Endnotes:
(1) NSW Government Gazette 5 November 1880 p.5709
(2) NSW Law Almanac 1955 p.5
(3) NSW Law Almanac 1967 p.6