Ronald Sackville is the Chair of the
. He is a former acting judge of the Court of Appeal of the
Supreme Court of New South Wales
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and also a former judge of the
Federal Court of Australia
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.
Education
Sackville is a graduate of the
University of Melbourne
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(where he was editor of the ''
Melbourne University Law Review
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'') and
Yale University
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.
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Career
Sackville was professor of law (1972–1985) and dean of the faculty of law (1979–1981) at the University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...
.[ He was also associate in law at the ]University of California, Berkeley
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(1966–1967), and senior lecturer in Law at the University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...
(1967–1972).
He served as Commissioner for Law and Poverty on the Australian Government Commission of Inquiry into Poverty (1973–1975); chairman of the South Australian Royal Commission into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs (1977–1979); chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission
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(1981–1984); part-time member of the Commonwealth Schools Commission (1984–1985); part-time chairman of the Victorian Accident Compensation Commission (1985–1989); and chair of the Commonwealth Access to Justice Advisory Committee (1993–1994).[ He was also an assistant commissioner of the ]Independent Commission Against Corruption (New South Wales)
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is an agency of the Government of New South Wales responsible for eliminating and investigating corrupt activities and enhancing the integrity of the state's public administration. The Comm ...
(1992);[ and chair of the Judicial Conference of Australia, a body representing judicial officers throughout Australia (2004–2006).
Sackville practised as a barrister in Sydney from 1985 until 1994.][ He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1991.][ He served as a judge of the ]Federal Court of Australia
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from 1994[-2008, and as an acting judge of the Court of Appeal of the ]Supreme Court of NSW
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from 2008-2019. He has also been a judge on the Supreme Court of Fiji
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(2006–2009), and a member of the Civil and Commercial Court of Qatar (2006–2012).
Sackville has held many academic posts, including visiting appointments at York University
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(Toronto), University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
, McGill University
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(Montreal), Cardozo Law School
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, Yeshiva University
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on the Yeshiva Universit ...
(New York), Cornell University
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(New York), New York University
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In 1832, the ...
, and the University of NSW
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(Sydney). He was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Technology Sydney
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(2008) and the University of Sydney
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(2008–2009).
On 27 July 2007 Justice Sackville delivered his judgment in ''Seven Network Limited v News Limited'' 007FCA 1062, one of the most expensive pieces of litigation in Australian history. That case involved a complaint by Australia's Channel Seven television network that it was forced to shut down its pay television sports channels business due to anti-competitive conduct by a range of other Australian media companies including News, PBL and Telstra between 1999 and 2001. Sackville found that no such anti-competitive conduct existed. This case has become an example for the University of New South Wales.
On 4 April 2019 Sackville was appointed to serve as the Chair of the .
Honours
In the Australia Day Honours of 2009, he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia
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for "service to the administration of the Australian judicial system, to the reform of federal and state law, and to legal education." He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1991, and was awarded a Doctor of Laws (LLD) (Honoris Causa) by the University of NSW
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public university, public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight (Australian universities), ...
in 2002.
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Melbourne Law School alumni
Yale Law School alumni
Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Cornell University faculty
Officers of the Order of Australia
Judges of the Federal Court of Australia
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Law
Australian King's Counsel
Supreme Court of Fiji justices
Australian judges on the courts of Fiji
University of New South Wales faculty