Kevin James Andrews is an Australian former politician and member of the Liberal Party of Australia. He was the Member of House of Representatives for the seat of Menzies from a by-election in 1991 until the 2022 Australian federal election. Andrews is a conservative and a Catholic.
Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs was Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1981 to 1987 after serving as a member of the High Court between 1970 and 1981. He was known as one of Australia's leading federalist judges although he presided over the High Court when decisions such as Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen in 1982 and Commonwealth v Tasmania expanded the powers of the Commonwealth at the expense of the states. Gibbs dissented from the majority verdict in both cases. On 3 August 2012,the Supreme Court of Queensland Library opened the Sir Harry Gibbs Legal Heritage Centre. It is the only legal heritage museum of its kind in Queensland and features a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and legacy of Sir Harry Gibbs.
Damian John Bugg is an Australian barrister who served as the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions between 1999 and 2007. Prior to this appointment,he was the Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions from July 1986 to 1999. In 2005,he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the law. He served as Chancellor of the University of Tasmania between 2006 and 2012.
Philippe Kirsch,is a Canadian lawyer who served as a judge of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2009 and was the Court's first president.
Kerry Gerard Shine is an Australian Labor politician who was member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Toowoomba North from 2001 to 2012 and served as Attorney-General of Queensland from 2006 to 2009. He was elected as a member of Toowoomba Regional Council in March 2020.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers,,was founded in 1919 by Maurice Blackburn. The firm is an Australian plaintiff law firm,having represented clients in a number of high-profile cases since its establishment.
Lex Lasry is an Australian lawyer and a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 2007 to 2018. He also sat as a reserve judge from 2018 until his retirement as a reserve judge in February 2024.
Muhamed Haneef is an Indian-born doctor who was falsely accused of aiding terrorists,and left Australia upon cancellation of his visa amid great political controversy. His visa was later reinstated and he was given some compensation.
Michael Rozenes is the former Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria,an intermediate court in Victoria,Australia. He presided over the County Court for thirteen years,retiring in June 2015.
Chris Nyst is an Australian solicitor and crime fiction writer.
The Hon. Matthew Joseph Foley is a former Australian politician.
Margaret Anne McMurdo is the former president of the Queensland Court of Appeal. Appointed on 30 July 1998,she was the first female president of an appellate court in Australia. She resigned effective 24 March 2017 after more than 18 years as a justice of the Court of Appeal.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
David Martin Shoebridge is an Australian politician and former barrister. He is a member of the Australian Greens and was elected to the Senate as the party's lead candidate in New South Wales at the 2022 federal election,to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. He previously served in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2010 to 2022 and on the Woollahra Municipal Council from 2004 to 2012.
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.
David Graham Russell,is an Australian barrister who specialises in international tax law.
Alfred Martin Daubney was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2007. He is an honorary fellow of the Australian Catholic University,a member of the senate of the University of Queensland and president of the King’s College council at the University of Queensland. In July 2021 he was appointed chancellor of the Australian Catholic University and took up the position in January 2022.
Duncan Andrew Pegg was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Stretton in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from the 2015 election until his death in 2021. On 22 April 2021,Pegg announced he would be resigning within several weeks to undergo treatment for cancer. Pegg's death triggered a by-election for Stretton.
Stanley Graham Jones is a retired Australian judge. He served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland and became the court's first Far North Queensland judge. He was the first person to be appointed to the role of chancellor at Central Queensland University.
Debbie Kilroy,née Deborah Harding,is an Australian human rights activist and prison reformer. She is known for having founded Sisters Inside,an independent community organisation based in Queensland,Australia,that advocates for the human rights of women and girls in the criminal legal system. She is a qualified lawyer,who in 2007 was the first person with serious convictions to be allowed to practise law by the Supreme Court of Queensland.
