Where a Magistrates Court file is administratively transferred to the District Court without a formal remand under s 57(4a) of the CLSA (because no guilty plea has been entered), the District Court judge exercises Magistrates Court jurisdiction, and appeals lie under s 42 of the Magistrates Court Act 1991 (SA), not under the Criminal Law Consolidation Act or District Court Act. The power to vary judgments in 'related proceedings' under s 42(5)(a) extends to sentences imposed by a different judicial officer in a different action where those sentences are interdependent with the sentence under appeal.
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