![]() ![]() "It's quite an old idea, but we get it in Australia via America mostly," she says. Sovereign citizens are straining the system. Usually, they aim to have all these matters finalised on the same day. Generally, magistrates deal with about 60 to 80 cases in court each day, but sometimes that can be blown out to over 100, he says. ![]() So, yeah, there's been a very sharp rise," he says. "There are 50 magistrates who have dealt with three to four hundred matters in the last six months. Many of his fellow NSW local court magistrates say they've also seen an increase in the number of sovereign citizens putting forward pseudo -legal arguments since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. ![]() ![]() And you start to suspect that it's going to be pseudo-legal arguments," Magistrate Douglas tells ABC RN's The Law Report. "You'll pick up a file, and it might be a parking fine, and there might be 300 pages on it in an envelope. Magistrate Douglas says that about 50 per cent of legal complaints to the NSW judicial commission are filed by self-represented people. In the last six months, judicial complaints have increased between 20 to 30 per cent, and a lot of those are filed by sovereign citizens contesting legal matters. ![]()
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