Supreme Court of New South Wales

Anthology

A collection of published speeches by former judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

Former Chief Justices


Former judges

In alphabetical order

A - I

Justice A R Abadee AFD
Justice M Adams
​​Date​Speech
​28 Jul 1998​Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Michael Adams QC (PDF, 121.1 KB)​
Justice J L B Allsop AO
Justice R P Austin
Justice J Basten
​Justice R I Barrett​​​​​​​​

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Chief Justice Bathurst

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Justice Beazley

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Justice R T Beech-Jones
Justice Virginia Bell
Justice Bellew
Date​Speech
31 Jan 2012Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Geoffrey Bellew (PDF, 62.1 KB) (PDF, 62.1 KB)
Justice Bergin

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Justice Brereton

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Justice Bryson

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Justice Buddin
Justice R Button
Date​Speech
12 Jun 2012Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Richard Button (PDF, 56.2 KB)
Justice Campbell
Justice R Darke
Date​Speech
16 Aug 2013Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Rowan Darke (PDF, 44.8 KB)
Justice D L Davies
​​Date​Speech
29 Jun 2009Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice David Davies (PDF, 54.4 KB)
Justice Dowd
Justice Dunford
Justice Einstein
Justice Emmett
Justice Forster
Justice Fullerton
Justice P R Garling RFD
Justice F Gleeson
Date​Speech
​15 Nov 2017
​​2017 Corporate and Commercial Law Conference: Proscriptive and prescriptive duties: is the distinction helpful and sustainable, and if so, what are the practical consequences? (PDF, 681.0 KB)
​29 Apr 2013
​Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Fabian Gleeson (PDF, 59.2 KB)
Justice Gzell
Justice Hamilton
Justice Handley
Justice Hall
​​Date​Speech
08 Mar 2005Swearing-In Ceremony of the Honourable Peter Michael Hall QC (PDF, 45.3 KB) (PDF, 45.3 KB)
Justice P Henry
​​Date​Speech
30 Jan 2019(PDF, 148.0 KB)Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Patricia Henry (PDF, 57.5 KB)
Justice J D Heydon
Justice P Hidden
Date​Speech
May 2003Public Defenders' Conference - Common Ethical Problems for the Criminal Advocate (PDF, 594.7 KB) (PDF, 594.7 KB)
Justice Hislop
Justice Hodgson
Justice Hoeben
Justice Howie
Justice R A Hulme

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Justice M J Ierace

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Date​Speech
31 Jan 2019(PDF, 148.0 KB)Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Mark Ierace (PDF, 68.8 KB)
Justice Ipp

J - R

Justice Johnson

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Justice Latham
Justice Levine
Justice Macfarlan
Associate Justice Macready
Justice Mason
Justice McCallum
Justice P D McClellan AM

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Justice McColl

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Justice McDougall

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Justice A J Meagher
Justice R P Meagher
Justice Nicholas
Justice Palmer
Justice Pembroke
Justice Powell
Justice Rein
​​Date​Speech
05 May 2008Swearing-In Ceremony of the Honourable Nigel Geoffrey Rein (PDF, 60.0 KB)
Justice Rothman
Justice S Robb
​​Date​Speech
20 Jun 2013Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Stephen Robb (PDF, 47.9 KB)

S - Z

Justice J R Sackar
Justice Santow
Justice M Schmidt

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Justice Shaw
Justice Sheller
Justice Simpson
Justice Sperling
Justice Stein
Justice J W J Stevenson
Justice Sully
Justice Tobias
Justice M Walton
​​Date​Speech
08 Dec 2016Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Michael Walton (PDF, 57.4 KB)

Justice Whealy
Justice R W White
Date​Speech
​17 Mar 2017​Insolvent Trusts: Implications of Buckle and CPT Custodian (PDF, 270.6 KB)​
18 Oct 2014Advocacy and Ethics: The Self-Represented Litigant (PDF, 130.6 KB)
​15 Nov 2011​Use of Extrinsic Evidence to Construe Wills (PDF, 158.4 KB)​
​30 Oct 2010​Overview of the Evidence Act (PDF, 405.7 KB)
​21 May 2010​Trusts - An Australian Perspective (PDF, 439.2 KB)
​Aug 2007​The Nature of a Beneficiary's Equitable Interest in a Trust (PDF, 339.5 KB)
​27 Apr 2004​Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Richard White (PDF, 35.2 KB)
Justice H Wilson
​​Date​Speech
03 Nov 2014Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Helen Wilson (PDF, 40.6 KB)
Justice Wood
Justice R Wright
Justice Young

Ceremonial sittings


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