Catherine Ena"Cate" Holmes is a retired Australian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland,the highest ranking court in the Australian state of Queensland. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2000,to the Queensland Court of Appeal in 2006 and appointed chief justice on 11 September 2015. She retired on 19 March 2022.
Judicial disqualification,also referred to as recusal,is the act of abstaining from participation in an official action such as a legal proceeding due to a conflict of interest of the presiding court official or administrative officer. Applicable statutes or canons of ethics may provide standards for recusal in a given proceeding or matter. Providing that the judge or presiding officer must be free from disabling conflicts of interest makes the fairness of the proceedings less likely to be questioned.
Gerald Edward "Tony" Fitzgerald is a former Australian judge,who presided over the Fitzgerald Inquiry. The report from the inquiry led to the resignation of the Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen,and the jailing of several ministers and a police commissioner. He was the youngest person to be appointed as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
Margaret Mary Cunneen SC is an Australian barrister,prosecutor and commissioner of a government inquiry.
Diane McGrath Fingleton is a former magistrate in the Queensland Magistrates Court,most notable for being appointed Chief Magistrate and later being convicted of the offence of intimidation of a witness,before the conviction was quashed on appeal to the High Court of Australia.
Jarrod Pieter Bleijie is an Australian politician in the Queensland parliament. Bleijie was elected as the member for Kawana at the 2009 state election,and is the third member since the seat's inception at the 2001 state election. He served as Attorney-General of Queensland from 2012 until 2015.
John Harris Byrne is a retired Australian jurist who previously served as Senior Judge Administrator of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Having been a judge of that court since 1989,he was one of the court's most experienced judges. He was also Chair of the National Judicial College of Australia,a body which provides programs and professional development resources to judicial officers in Australia. He is now a private Commercial Arbitrator.
Roslyn Gay Atkinson is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland,who served for 20 years from 1998 until her retirement in 2018. In 2002 she also became the Chairperson of the Queensland Law Reform Commission,and served in that role until her retirement in 2013. As well as being responsible for the Yankee Doodles precedent,Justice Atkinson has also made two notable decisions in her capacity as member of the Queensland Legal Practice Tribunal.
Nicola Maree Gobbo,sometimes known as Nikki Gobbo,is an Australian former criminal defence barrister and police informant.
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.
Philip D. McMurdo is an Australian judge. He has been a judge of the Queensland Court of Appeal since 2015;he was previously a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland from 2003 to 2015.
Timothy Francis Carmody is an Australian judge who was the Chief Justice of Queensland between 8 July 2014 and 1 July 2015. His previous roles include work as a police officer,barrister,Queensland Crime Commissioner,Family Court of Australia judge,and Chief Magistrate of the Magistrates Court of Queensland. He also presided over the 2013 Child Protection Commission of Inquiry.
Lucy McCallum is the Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory and a former judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Walter Sofronoff is an Australian jurist and lawyer who served as the President of the Queensland Court of Appeal (2017–2022) and as the Solicitor-General of Queensland from 2005 to 2014.
AB v CD;EF v CD is a decision of the High Court of Australia.
The Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants - An inquiry into Victoria Police’s use of Nicola Gobbo as a human source,referred to in the press as Lawyer X Royal Commission,was a royal commission in Victoria,Australia set up to examine the actions of Nicola Gobbo and Victoria Police whilst Gobbo,also referred to as Informer 3838,Lawyer X (media),and EF (litigation),was working as a lawyer and acting as a registered informer. It was announced on 3 December 2018,in response to the High Court AB v CD;EF v CD judgement,and was established on 13 December 2018 under Hon Margaret McMurdo to examine the adequacy and effectiveness of the processes of Victoria Police for the recruitment,handling and management of human sources who are subject to legal obligations of confidentiality or privilege and the effect of using such sources on past cases.
The Kellem review was an Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) inquiry undertaken by Murray Kellam from July 2014 to February 2015 into Victoria Police human source management. The review was initiated in response to newspaper reports about the actions of lawyer Nicola Gobbo in providing information to police.
