Brigitte Sandra Markovic is an Australian judge. She has been a judge of the
Federal Court of Australia
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, based in
Sydney
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, since 2015.
Markovic was born in
Sydney
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, the daughter of
Holocaust survivors. She was educated at
Ascham School
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and the
University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce in 1987. She was a solicitor at
Clayton Utz from 1988 until her appointment to the court in 2015. She was appointed as a partner in Clayton Utz in 1997, becoming one of the firm's youngest partners at the age of 32. She was based in
Canberra
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from 1997 to 2000, where she established Clayton Utz's federal government practice. She was made managing partner heading the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution group in 2010. Her areas of practise as a solicitor included corporations, insolvency, commercial and administrative law, and her cases included representing the
Australian Securities & Investments Commission in litigation over the
HIH Insurance collapse and their civil prosecution of
James Hardie
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.
She was appointed to the Federal Court by
Attorney-General George Brandis on 11 August 2015, taking effect from 24 August. On her appointment, Brandis described her as "one of Australia’s foremost litigation lawyers".
She is married to barrister Jonathan Kay Hoyle.
See also
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List of Judges of the Federal Court of Australia
References
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Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Judges of the Federal Court of Australia
Australian women judges
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at Ascham School
University of New South Wales alumni