James Charles Sholto Burchett

Queen's Counsel In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of ...

, born in

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, on 11 October 1930, died 30 September 2012, was Justice of the

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between June 1985 and October 2000 and was president of the Australian

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. In 1996 he handed a series of judgements which delayed the start of the

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rugby league breakaway competition. He conducted the 2001 Inquiry into Military Justice in the

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, which concluded that there was not a culture of widespread or systemic avoidance of due disciplinary processes, nor the use of violence to maintain discipline, in the ADF. Burchett was appointed as the independent code reviewer for the Australian copyright collecting societies' voluntary code of conduct, to monitor and report on compliance with the code. He was Chairperson of the

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between 2003 and 2009.Appointment of the Chairperson of the AEC
Burchett also served as a judge on the Court of Appeal of Tonga.

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Judges of the Federal Court of Australia Australian King's Counsel 20th-century King's Counsel Australian judges on the courts of Tonga Court of Appeal of Tonga justices 1930 births 2012 deaths 21st-century American politicians {{Australia-law-bio-stub