Stephen Hall (judge)

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Stephen Hall is an Australian jurist who is a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He was appointed to the general (trial) division of the court in 2009. In 2022, he was appointed as a permanent judge of the appeal division of the Court (the Court of Appeal). [1]

Career

Stephen Hall is a graduate of the University of Western Australia earning a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1983, a Bachelor of Laws in 1984 and Bachelor of Arts in 1987. [2] [3]

He was admitted as a lawyer in 1985, after serving articles at the firm Lohrmann, Tindal and Guthrie. He joined the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in Perth in 1986. He worked in the Major Fraud Branch as part of a team dealing with large scale taxation fraud. He went on to work in the General Prosecutions Branch, and appeared as counsel in cases involving drugs, fraud, migration and fisheries. He was then appointed as the Senior Assistant Director in the Commercial Prosecutions Branch in 1991. In this role, he led prosecutions in a number of high profile cases, including the prosecution of Alan Bond for the Bell Cash Strip, at that time the largest fraud case in Australian history. [4]

In 1999, Hall joined the Independent Bar of Western Australia. He initially took chambers at Wickham Chambers before later moving to Francis Burt Chambers. At the bar he specialised in white collar crime, corporate regulation, insolvency and corruption prevention. [4]

In 2001, Hall was appointed counsel assisting the royal commission into the Finance Broking Industry. In 2002, he was appointed counsel assisting the Police Royal Commission. He was also retained as counsel assisting the Corruption and Crime Commission in a number of investigations in which public hearings were held. These included hearings into allegations of misuse of public office and political lobbying. In 2003 he was appointed Senior Counsel (SC). [4]

From 2006 to 2009, Hall was retained as National in-house counsel by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. In this role he appeared as counsel in trials and appeals in South Australia, Queensland, Victoria, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. [4]

Hall commenced as a judge of the Supreme Court on 6 July 2009. For four years, he was the judge in charge of the criminal list. At this time he became well known as the presiding judge in a number of high-profile cases: [5]

In 2022, Hall was appointed as a permanent judge of the Court of Appeal, the highest court in the hierarchy in Western Australia. [6] He had previously served as an acting judge of appeal.

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References

  1. ↑ Australia, Supreme Court of Western. "Current Judges and Masters". supremecourt.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  2. ↑ "Supreme Court of Western Australia Current Judges and Masters" . Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "New judge for the Supreme Court of Western Australia". 19 June 2009. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "WELCOME TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE STEPHEN DAVID HALL" (PDF). www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au. 24 July 2009.
  5. ↑ Farcic, Elle (17 February 2019). "Justice Stephen Hall: The man who will decide fate of Claremont serial killing accused". West Australian. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  6. ↑ "Media statements - Supreme Court's Justice Hall to join Court of Appeal". www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au. Archived from the original on 1 January 2023.


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