James Leslie Bain Allsop (born April 1953) is

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, in office since 1 March 2013. He was previously President of the

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, where he presided from 2 June 2008 to 28 February 2013.

Education

Allsop attended Sydney Grammar School and completed year 12 in 1970. Allsop then graduated from the

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with a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1980. He won the

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in law.Who's Who in Australia

Career

Allsop was admitted to the

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in 1981, and was appointed Senior Counsel in 1994. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in

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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

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(2003–08). Allsop was appointed the President of the

on 2 June 2008. On 20 November 2012, Commonwealth Attorney-General

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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

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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" and demonstrating the "yawning crevasse between the facts in the real world and Australian "environmental" law". Allsop is also an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney, where he specialises in international admiralty and maritime law.

Honours

Allsop was appointed an Officer of the

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(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.

References

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Education

Career

Honours

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