Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) When any action, matter or proceeding is pending in the District Court in its civil or criminal jurisdiction or when any accused person has been committed for trial to the District Court, the Supreme Court shall, upon application by the Crown, in a criminal matter or proceeding or in any action or civil proceeding in which the Crown is a party and may, if it thinks it desirable, upon the application of any interested person, direct a writ of certiorari to be issued for removing such action, matter or proceeding into the Supreme Court or recommit the accused person for trial to the Supreme Court.
Editor's note—
Judicial Review Act 1991, section 41—
41 Certain prerogative writs not to be issued
(1) The prerogative writs of mandamus, prohibition or certiorari are no longer to be issued by the Court.
(2) If, before the commencement of this Act, the court had jurisdiction to grant any relief or remedy by way of a writ of mandamus, prohibition or certiorari, the court continues to have the jurisdiction to grant the relief or remedy, but must grant the relief or remedy by making an order, the relief or remedy under which is in the nature of, and to the same effect as, the relief or remedy that could, but for subsection (1), have been granted by way of such a writ.
(3) In an enactment in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, a reference to a writ of mandamus, prohibition or certiorari is taken to be a reference to an order of a kind that the court is empowered to make under this section.
(2) The Supreme Court may impose such terms as to payment of costs as it thinks fit and it may make such orders as to remand custody and bail or otherwise as it thinks fit.