The Honourable Justice Geoff Lindsay AM was sworn-in as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 6 August 2012. His Honour graduated from the Australian National University in 1977 with degrees in Economics and Law, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1978 before his call to the Bar a year later. His Honour spent a significant part of his career at the Bar with 8 Wentworth Chambers and took silk in 1994. He is the Editor of the Australian Bar Review, Senior Vice President of the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
| Associate | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Trish Beazley | Associate to Justice Lindsay | (02) 8113 6560 |
Legal, cultural or benevolent organisations
Uniform Rules Committee/ Supreme Court Rules Committee |
The Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History |
College of Law Wills and Estates Course Advisory Committee |
Co-Patron of STEP NSW (appointed) |
2–4 August |
AAL/ALJ/AIJA Bicentenary Conference (Supreme Court, Sydney) |
7–8 September |
Blue Mountains Law Society Succession Law Conference (Katoomba, NSW) |
26 October |
Adoption Conference (Supreme Court, Sydney) |
27 February |
College of Law CPD Webinar paper ‘Professional Skills: Towards a Managerial Mindset (Case Management, Rules of Court and Practice Notes in the Conduct of Civil Proceedings)’ |
20 March |
UNSW Edge Seminars: Wills and Estates Intensive paper, ‘Australian Succession Law in Conversation with the ‘Inheritance Laws’ of Religious Communities’ |
28 May |
STEP Event for Young Lawyers (Sydney) |
9 May |
The University of Notre Dame Australia Broadway, NSW, The Michael O’Dea Oration, ‘Thinking about Law: The Wisdom of a Common Law Tradition’ |
7–8 September |
The Blue Mountains Law Society 2024 Succession Conference – paper, ‘The Dynamics and Dilemmas of Costs Orders Upon an Exercise of ‘Welfare’ Jurisdiction’ |
20 November 2024 |
STEP NSW Seminar – paper ‘Current Issues and Routine Patterns in Estate Litigation, Across Jurisdictional Boundaries and Social Context’ (Supreme Court, Sydney) |
Editor, Australian Bar Review (since 1996) |
Co-Editor, NSW Civil Procedure Handbook, 2019 (Thomson Reuters) |
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