Julie Anne Dodds-Streeton | |
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Reserve Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria | |
Assumed office 24 November 2015 | |
Judge of the Federal Court of Australia | |
In office 1 February 2010 –1 April 2014 | |
Judge of the Victorian Court of Appeal | |
In office 8 August 2007 –1 February 2010 | |
Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria | |
In office 23 July 2002 –1 February 2010 | |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Australian |
Spouse | Roger Arnold Streeton |
Education | University High School,Melbourne University of Melbourne Monash University |
Occupation | Judge,lawyer |
Julie Anne Dodds-Streeton QC is a Reserve Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She was formerly a judge of the Federal Court of Australia,having served for four years from February 2010. Prior to that,she was a Justice of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Victoria (appointed August 2007),having previously been a Judge of the Trial Division of that Court from 2002. [1]
Dodds-Streeton attended University High School,Melbourne before studying at the University of Melbourne,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours and then a Bachelor of Laws,also with Honours. [1] She also was awarded a Master of Arts from Monash University. [2]
Dodds-Streeton served her articles with Paveys and was admitted as a solicitor in 1981. She worked as an academic at the Melbourne Law School,where she was a Senior Lecturer in corporate law,real property,intellectual property and equity,before becoming a barrister in 1988,where she read with Joseph Santamaria. [3] practising principally in commercial law. Dodds-Streeton was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2001. [2] Dodds-Streeton was a member of the Insolvency and Corporate Reconstruction Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Dodds-Streeton was one of the counsel assisting the HIH Royal Commission, [4] where she cross-examined Malcolm Turnbull about his role in the sale of FAI Insurance to HIH Insurance. [5]
Dodds-Streeton was appointed to the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 23 July 2002, [3] before being elevated to the Court of Appeal on 8 August 2007. [1] Dodds-Streeton joined fellow justices Marilyn Warren and Rosemary Balmford on the court and Victoria's first all female Full Court sat for the admissions ceremony in August 2002. [6] [7]
On 1 February 2010 Dodds-Streeton was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia, [2] where she served for four years until her retirement on 1 April 2014. [1]
Justice Dodds-Streeton was a member of the Expert Advisory Panel established in June 2015 by the Federal Government to oversee the competitive evaluation process of the Future Submarine Program. [8] In August 2014 she was appointed as a panel member of the Commonwealth Bank's Open Advice Review Program,chaired by former High Court judge,the Honourable Justice Ian Callinan AC, QC . The panel was a part of a dispute settlement procedure for customers who received financial advice from the Commonwealth Bank received between 2003 and 2012. [9]
Since 2011 she has held the position of President of the Professional Standards Review Board,Anglican Dioceses of Melbourne,Ballarat and Wangaratta,and since 2017,also Bendigo. [10]
She is a current Senior Fellow,Law School,University of Melbourne (since 2013); [8] Member of the Council of Australian Law Deans - Australian Law Schools Standards Committee (since 2015);[ citation needed ] and Member and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (from 2016). [11]
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