Anthony Murray Gleeson is an Australian former judge who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Australia,in office from 1998 to 2008.
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.
Roderick Pitt Meagher,known as Roddy Meagher,was an Australian jurist and judge.
Sir Laurence Whistler Street,was the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales. He was the third generation of the Street family to serve in these viceregal offices and the youngest since 1844. Street fought in World War II and became a commander in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve and an honorary colonel in the Australian Army Reserve.
Sir Frederick Richard Jordan (1881–1949) was an Australian barrister,the 9th Chief Justice of New South Wales,and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales.
Sir Leslie James Herron was a prominent Australian barrister,judge,Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales. Biographer Martha Rutledge describes him as being "interested,interesting and with a lively sense of humour",but that he "conducted his court with consideration,dignity and mercy". The ferry The Lady Herron was named after his wife.
The Chief Justice of New South Wales is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the highest-ranking judicial officer in the Australian state of New South Wales. The Chief Justice is both the judicial head of the Supreme Court as well as the administrative head,responsible for arranging the business of the court and establishing its rules and procedures.
James Leslie Bain Allsop is an Australian judge,currently serving as a foreign Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. He was the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia,in office from 1 March 2013 to 6 April 2023. He was also previously President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal,where he presided from 2 June 2008 to 28 February 2013. In 2024,he was appointed as an International Judge to the Singapore International Commercial Court.
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.
Peter David McClellan is a retired judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal who served between February 2013 and February 2018. McClellan was the Chief Royal Commissioner of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse from January 2013 to December 2017. He was previously the Chief Judge in Common Law in the Supreme Court,a position to which he was appointed in 2005.
Patrick Anthony Keane is an Australian judge currently serving as a non-permanent judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal since 6 April 2023,after his retirement as a Justice of the High Court of Australia. He is currently the Chair of the Expert Advisory Group set up by the Australian Government to guide reforms to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He is a former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
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.
Paul Leon Stein was an Australian lawyer and judge,and an authority on environmental law.
Peter Garling,RFD is an Australian judge,a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales,the highest court in the state of New South Wales.
Alan Robertson is a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia. He served as a deputy president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal,and retired from the Court in May 2020 having reached the mandatory retirement age for federal judicial appointments.
