Anthony Murray Gleeson is an Australian former judge who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Australia,in office from 1998 to 2008.
John Dyson Heydon is an Australian former judge and barrister who served on the High Court of Australia from 2003 to 2013 and the New South Wales Court of Appeal from 2000 to 2003,and previously served as Dean of the Sydney Law School. He retired from the bench at the constitutionally-mandated age of 70 and went on to chair the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption between 2014 and 2015,an appointment that was politically controversial due to his avowed conservatism and connections with the governing conservative party.
Michael Hudson McHugh is a former justice of the High Court of Australia;the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.
The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters,and hears the most serious criminal matters. Whilst the Supreme Court is the highest New South Wales court in the Australian court hierarchy,an appeal by special leave can be made to the High Court of Australia.
The New South Wales Act 1823,or New South Wales Jurisdiction Act 1823,was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,which established the New South Wales Legislative Council and the Supreme Court of New South Wales,in addition to the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land.
The New South Wales Court of Appeal,part of the Supreme Court of New South Wales,is the highest court for civil matters and has appellate jurisdiction in the Australian state of New South Wales.
The Judicial Commission of New South Wales is an independent statutory corporation of the New South Wales Government that provides sentencing information and continuing education to and examines complaints made against judicial officers in New South Wales,Australia.
Margaret Joan Beazley,,is an Australian jurist who is the 39th and current governor of New South Wales,serving since 2 May 2019. She was the president of the New South Wales Court of Appeal,the first woman to hold the office,from 2013 until February 2019.
Virginia Margaret Bell is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia,the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. She was sworn in on 3 February 2009,and retired on 28 February 2021.
James Jacob Spigelman is a former Australian judge who served as Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1998 to 2011. He was also Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales from 1998 to 2012. He served on the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong as a non-permanent judge from other common law jurisdictions from April 2013 to his early resignation in September 2020. Spigelman also served as chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 2012 to 2017.
Arthur Robert Emmett,is an Australian judge who served as a member of the New South Wales Court of Appeal from 7 March 2013 to 30 September 2015,and has continued to serve as an Acting Judge of the Court of Appeal since that date. From 1997 until 2013 he was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Prior to his appointment to Judge,
Brian Thomas Sully was an Australian judge and legal scholar. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1989 to 2007.
Thomas Frederick Bathurst,is an England-born Australian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1 June 2011 to 5 March 2022. He has served as Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales from 1 February 2012 to 5 December 2022.
Solicitor General for New South Wales,known informally as the Solicitor General,is one of the Law Officers of the Crown,and the deputy of the Attorney General. They can exercise the powers of the Attorney General in the Attorney General's absence. The Solicitor General acts alongside the Crown Advocate,and Crown Solicitor,and serves as one of the legal and constitutional advisers of the Crown and its government in the Australian state of New South Wales.
Julie Kathryn Ward is the President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal within the Supreme Court of New South Wales,the highest court in the State of New South Wales,Australia.
Helen Gay Murrell is an Australian lawyer and judge who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
Monika Schmidt was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 2009 until 2019,appointed to the Common Law Division,having previously been a judge of the Industrial Court of New South Wales for 16 years.
Lucy McCallum is the Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory and a former judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
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