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Judges who have served on the Supreme Court of Victoria as of 18 June 2022, include: Chief Justices of Victoria Presidents of the Court of Appeal Judges of Appeal Judges Reserve judges Position Name Appointment commenced Appointment ended Term in office Comments Notes Chief Justice William à Beckett 19 January 1852 20 February 1857 5 years, 32 days William Stawell 25 February 1857 24 ...
This includes all Chief Justices that can also be found in the subcategories. The main article for this category is Supreme Court of Victoria . For more information, see List of Judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria .
The chief justice is both the judicial head of the Supreme Court as well as the administrative head. They are responsible for arranging the business of the court and establishing its rules and procedures. The current chief justice is Richard Niall, who was appointed by Governor Margaret Gardner to succeed Anne Ferguson. Niall's term began on 3 ...
Stephen William Kaye (born 1951) is a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He was appointed to the bench on 16 December 2003, [1] serving as a judge of the Trial Division until his appointment the Court of Appeal in 2015. On 1 February 2022, the Attorney General of the Victorian Government announced the end of his term from the Court of ...
The Yoorrook Justice Commission is a Royal Commission established by the Victorian Government to examine past and ongoing injustices to the First People of Victoria resulting from colonisation to provide a culturally safe place in which First People and others can tell the truth about traumatic events that have happened and their effects, to ...
Maree Evelyn Kennedy is a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria.She was appointed to the Court of Appeal in December 2020. After graduating from the Monash Law School, she completed articles with Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks (now Allens) and was admitted to practice in 1987.
Teague was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 13 October 1987, the first solicitor (i.e., non-barrister) to be so appointed.Previously, he had been chief litigation solicitor for the Melbourne law firm, Corrs, and President of the Law Institute of Victoria. [2]
Cameron was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria on 12 August 2014, one of a growing number of solicitors, particularly female, appointed to Australian superior courts. [7] Chief Justice of the Federal Court James Allsop attributes the growing number of appointment of female solicitors to the shortage of women barristers aged 50–55 ...