James Allsop

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Australian judge and former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

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::summary Australian judge and former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia ::

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honorific-prefixThe Honourable
nameJames Allsop
honorific-suffix
nationalityAustralian
image1 james allsop 2017.jpg
officeChief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
term_start1 March 2013
term_end6 April 2023
appointerDame Quentin Bryce
predecessorPatrick Keane
successorDebra Mortimer
office2President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
term_start21 June 2008
term_end228 February 2013
predecessor2Keith Mason
successor2Margaret Beazley
birth_date
birth_placeSydney
alma_materUniversity of Sydney
death_place
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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable | name = James Allsop | honorific-suffix = | nationality = Australian | image = 1 james allsop 2017.jpg | office = Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia | term_start = 1 March 2013 | term_end = 6 April 2023 | appointer = Dame Quentin Bryce | predecessor = Patrick Keane | successor = Debra Mortimer | office2 = President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal | term_start2 = 1 June 2008 | term_end2 = 28 February 2013 | predecessor2 = Keith Mason | successor2 = Margaret Beazley | birth_date = | birth_place = Sydney | alma_mater = University of Sydney | death_date = | death_place = | James Leslie Bain Allsop (born 7 April 1953) is a judge from Australia, currently serving as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. As a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal, Allsop uses the official Chinese name of Au Zung-leot ().

He was the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, in office from 1 March 2013 to 6 April 2023. He was also previously President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, where he presided from 2 June 2008 to 28 February 2013. In 2024, he was appointed as an International Judge to the Singapore International Commercial Court.

Education

Allsop attended Sydney Grammar School and completed year 12 in 1970. Allsop then graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1980. He won the University Medal in law.

Career

Allsop was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1981, and was appointed Senior Counsel in 1994. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in Western Australia 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 Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (2003–08). Allsop was appointed the President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal on 2 June 2008.

On 20 November 2012, Commonwealth Attorney-General Nicola Roxon 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 Novak Djokovic 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".

He was succeeded as Chief Justice from 7 April 2023 by Justice Debra Mortimer, who has been a judge of the court.

After being appointed as a Non-Permanent Judge to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in March 2024, he remains in the position , along with other Australian judges Patrick Keane and William Gummow, after British judge Jonathan Sumption resigned, criticising the judiciary of Hong Kong after 14 prominent democratic activists were convicted for subversion.

Other activities

, Allsop is also an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney, where he specialises in international admiralty and maritime law.

In April 2024, Allsop gave the keynote speech at the Fifth Full Meeting of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts.

Honours

Allsop was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (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. He was promoted to Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2023 Australia Day Honours for "eminent service to the judiciary and to the law, to organisational and technological reform, to legal education, and to insolvency law".

References

References

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  2. (25 March 2024). "Appointment of non-permanent judge from another common law jurisdiction of the Court of Final Appeal".
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  4. (29 March 2012). "Former Judges of the Court".
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  6. Who's Who in Australia
  7. (2013). "Federal Judicial Scholarship".
  8. (15 March 2022). "Today's disappointing federal court decision undoes 20 years of climate litigation progress in Australia".
  9. "Tweet".
  10. (2023-03-31). "Federal Court to get its first female chief justice". ABC News.
  11. (25 March 2024). "Appointment of non-permanent judge from another common law jurisdiction of the Court of Final Appeal".
  12. Hogan, Libby. (11 June 2024). "Top judges quit Hong Kong's court, ex-judge warns rule of law is 'profoundly compromised'".
  13. Griffiths, John. (Winter 2023). "Retirement of Chief Justice James Allsop AC". NSW Bar Association News.
  14. "SIFoCC".
  15. (25 January 2013). "Australia Day 2013 Honours List". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
  16. (2023-01-25). "Australia Day 2023 Honours: Full list".

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