Stephen Hall (judge)

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The Honourable Justice 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).

Justice 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. [1] [2]

Justice Hall 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.

In 1999 Justice 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.

In 2001 Justice 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).

From 2006 to 2009 Justice 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.

Justice 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: [3]

In 2022 Justice Hall was appointed as a permanent judge of the Court of Appeal. He had previously served as an acting judge of appeal. The Court of Appeal is the highest court in the hierarchy in Western Australia. Archived 1 January 2023 at the Wayback Machine

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References

  1. ↑ "Supreme Court of Western Australia Current Judges and Masters" . Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "New judge for the Supreme Court of Western Australia". 19 June 2009. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "A Judge alone: The man who decides Claremont fate". The West Australian. 16 February 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2020.


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