Jocelynne Annette Scutt
AO (born 8 June 1947) is an Australian
feminist lawyer, writer and commentator. She is one of Australia's leading human rights barristers, was instrumental in reform of the laws on rape and domestic violence, and has served as Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of
Tasmania
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and as a judge on the
High Court of Fiji
The High Court of Fiji is one of three courts that was established by Chapter 9 of the 1997 Constitution of Fiji — the others being the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. The Constitution empowered Parliament to create other courts; the ...
.
Career
Jocelynne Scutt was born in
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...
. She graduated in law from the
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilitie ...
in 1969 and undertook postgraduate studies in law at the
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's ...
, at both
Southern Methodist University
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and the
University of Michigan
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in the United States, and
Cambridge University
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in England.
Scutt has worked with the
Australian Institute of Criminology
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and criminal justice. The Institute seeks to promote justice and reduce crime by undertaking and communicating evidence-based research ...
and as director of research with the Legal and Constitutional Committee of the parliament of
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
. From 1981 to 1982 she worked at the
Sydney Bar and then was Deputy Chairperson of the
Law Reform Commission
A law commission, law reform commission, or law revision commission is an independent body set up by a government to conduct law reform; that is, to consider the state of laws in a jurisdiction and make recommendations or proposals for legal chang ...
, Victoria. In 1986 she returned to private practice in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
. She served as the first Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of
Tasmania
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from 1999 to 2004. In 2007 she accepted a judicial post on the
Fiji High Court.
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She is a member of the UN Committee Against Trafficking, a board member of the ]International Alliance of Women
The International Alliance of Women (IAW; french: Alliance Internationale des Femmes, AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality. It was historically the main international org ...
and its representative to the Coalition for the International Criminal Court
The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) is an international network of NGOs, with a membership of over 2,500 organizations worldwide advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC). Coalition NG ...
. She is a writer, a film maker and is also a senior fellow at University of Buckingham
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and teaches law there.
A member of both the British Labour Party and Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms t ...
, Scutt was elected to represent the division of Arbury
Arbury is a district and electoral ward of the city of Cambridge, England. The ward borders the following other wards (from North, proceeding clockwise): Histon, King's Hedges, West Chesterton, Market and Castle.
History
The area has been occu ...
on the Cambridgeshire County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council is the county council of Cambridgeshire, England. The council consists of 61 councillors, representing 59 electoral divisions. The council is based at New Shire Hall at Alconbury Weald, near Huntingdon. It is a me ...
on 2 May 2013 and reelected on 4 May 2017.
Scutt was called to the English Bar in July 2014.
She became a part of Electoral Lobby in Canberra as well as Sydney. She also established the publisher, Artemis.
Selected works
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Honours
* She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1996, "for service to feminist jurisprudence and issues affecting women, including the establishment of a publishing company encouraging female contributions".
* She was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
The Victorian Honour Roll of Women was established in 2001 to recognise the achievements of women from the Australian state of Victoria. The Honour Roll was established as part of the celebrations of Victoria's Centenary of Federation.
Public no ...
in 2001.
References
External links
Interview with Jocelynne Scutt
vicnet.net.au; accessed 29 September 2015.
Biography of Dr Jocelynne Scutt
Australian Centre for Leadership for Women; accessed 31 May 2017.
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1947 births
Living people
Australian barristers
Australian judges on the courts of Fiji
Australian feminists
Writers from Perth, Western Australia
Australian feminist writers
Australian human rights activists
Women human rights activists
University of Michigan alumni
Officers of the Order of Australia
Members of Cambridgeshire County Council
21st-century British women politicians
21st-century English women politicians
21st-century English politicians
21st-century Australian women politicians
21st-century Australian politicians
Women councillors in England