John Mansfield | |
---|---|
Judge of the Federal Court of Australia | |
In office 2 September 1996 –24 August 2016 [1] | |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory | |
In office June 2009 –2016 | |
Personal details | |
Born | John Ronald Mansfield 25 August 1946 |
Nationality | Australian |
Children | 4 |
Education | Saint Ignatius' College,Adelaide |
Alma mater | University of Adelaide |
Occupation | Judge |
Profession | Lawyer |
Known for | Native Title law [2] |
John Ronald Mansfield AM KC is an Australian jurist and former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. He served from 1996 to 2016 and sat in the court's South Australian registry.
Mansfield was educated at Saint Ignatius' College,Adelaide before graduating from the University of Adelaide with Honours in Law. He was admitted as a practitioner in 1969 and later appointed Queen's Counsel for South Australia in 1985 and for the Northern Territory in 1988. [3] He was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in September 1996.
Mansfield has served as President of the South Australian Law Society in 1988–89,President of the Law Council of Australia from 1993–1994 and Chairman of the Legal Aid Committee for the Law Council of Australia from 1986-94. Additionally,Justice Mansfield is the Chair of the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation,a position he has held since 2003.
In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours Mansfield was appointed as Member of the Order of Australia For service to the law and to the judiciary,to a range of professional associations,and to the arts community of South Australia. [4] [5] On 1 June 2009,Justice Mansfield was appointed as an additional Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. [3] He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia on 16 August 2017. [2]
Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell,was an Australian lawyer,judge and state governor. Mitchell was the first woman to hold a number of positions in Australia –she was the country's first woman judge,and the first woman to be a Queen's Counsel,a chancellor of an Australian university and the Governor of an Australian state.
John Jeremy Doyle,,Australian jurist,was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia,the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia,between 1995 and 2012.
A puisne judge or puisne justice is a dated term for an ordinary judge or a judge of lesser rank of a particular court.
The Honourable Christopher David Steytler AO QC is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and President of the Court of Appeal. He was a member of the Supreme Court from 1994 to 2009 and was the Parliamentary Inspector of the Corruption and Crime Commission from 2009 to 2012.
Sir Richard Arthur Blackburn,was an Australian judge,prominent legal academic and military officer. He became a judge of three courts in Australia,and eventually became chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory. In the 1970s he decided one of Australia's earliest Aboriginal Land rights cases. His service to the Australian legal community is commemorated by the annual Sir Richard Blackburn Memorial lectures in Canberra.
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.
John Alfred Dowsett is a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
Patrick Anthony Keane is a Justice of the High Court of Australia and a former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
John Cauchi is an Australian lawyer who served as the Attorney General of Tonga from 2009 to 2010.
Gaetano (Tony) Pagone is a retired Australian judge who previously served as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 21 June 2013 until 31 March 2018. Until 21 June 2013,he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in the Australian state of Victoria.
Annabelle Claire Bennett is the Chancellor of Bond University and a former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
Geoffrey Arthur Akeroyd Nettle is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia,the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy,who served from 3 February 2015 to 30 November 2020. Prior to his appointment to the High Court,he served as a judge at the Court of Appeal,Supreme Court of Victoria,where he presided from June 2004 to 2015.
Margaret Jean White is a former Supreme Court of Queensland justice—the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Queensland. White was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1992 and was elevated to an Appeals Court Justice in 2010 until retirement in 2013. She has also previously served as a law lecturer at the University of Queensland.
Debra Mullins is the President of the Queensland Court of Appeal. She has served on the Supreme Court of Queensland since 2000,and was elevated to the Court of Appeal in 2020. She was appointed as Senior Counsel in and for the State of Queensland in 2008.
The Honourable or The Honorable is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people,usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions.
Melissa Anne Perry is a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
Justice Samuel Joshua Jacobs AO QC (1920–2011) was a highly respected lawyer and judge.
Rear Admiral Michael John Slattery,is a Royal Australian Naval Reserve officer and lawyer. He has been a justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales since 2009 and the Judge Advocate General of the Australian Defence Force since July 2014.
Sarah Catherine Derrington is an Australian jurist and academic. She has served as President of the Australian Law Reform Commission and as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia since 10 January 2018. She was previously Dean of Law at the University of Queensland from 2013 to 2018.
For service to the law and to the judiciary, to a range of professional associations, and to the arts community of South Australia.
"The Hon John Ronald MANSFIELD AM". Federal Court of Australia . Retrieved 16 January 2010.