James Allsop | |
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Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia | |
In office 1 March 2013 –6 April 2023 | |
Appointed by | Dame Quentin Bryce |
Preceded by | Patrick Keane |
Succeeded by | Debra Mortimer |
President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal | |
In office 1 June 2008 –28 February 2013 | |
Preceded by | Keith Mason |
Succeeded by | Margaret Beazley |
Personal details | |
Born | 7 April 1953 71) Sydney | (age
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | University of Sydney |
James Leslie Bain Allsop AC (born 7 April 1953 [1] ) is a retired judge who was the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia,in office from 1 March 2013 to 6 April 2023. [2] He was previously President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal,where he presided from 2 June 2008 to 28 February 2013. [3] In 2024,he was appointed as an International Judge to the Singapore International Commercial Court.
Allsop attended Sydney Grammar School and completed year 12 in 1970. Allsop then graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1980. He won the University Medal in law. [4]
Allsop was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1981,and was appointed Senior Counsel in 1994. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in Western Australia in 1998.
From 2001 to 2008,Allsop was a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. He has also served as an additional Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (2003–08). Allsop was appointed the President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal on 2 June 2008. [4]
On 20 November 2012,Commonwealth Attorney-General Nicola Roxon announced Allsop would be appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. In January 2022,he presided over the application for judicial review regarding the visa status of Novak Djokovic on the Full Bench of the Federal Court of Australia. In March 2022 he presided over the Court's ruling that the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment has no duty of care to protect children from the impacts of climate change when considering fossil fuel projects,a ruling that was characterised as undoing "20 years of climate litigation progress in Australia" [5] and demonstrating the "yawning crevasse between the facts in the real world and Australian "environmental" law". [6]
Allsop is also an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney,where he specialises in international admiralty and maritime law.
On 31 March 2023,it was announced that he would be succeeded as Chief Justice from 7 April 2023 by Justice Debra Mortimer,who has been a Judge of the Court. [7]
Allsop was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2013 for distinguished service to the judiciary and the law,as a judge,through reforms to equity and access,and through contributions to the administration of maritime law and legal education. [8] He was promoted to Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2023 Australia Day Honours for "eminent service to the judiciary and to the law,to organisational and technological reform,to legal education,and to insolvency law". [9]
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