New Judges

The Constitution requires that Justice Heydon retires from the High Court by 1 March 2013.

The Attorney General today announced that Justice Keane, currently the Chief Justice of the Federal Court, will be replacing him.

In addition, Justice Allsop, who is currently President of the NSW Court of Appeal, will be taking up appointment as Chief Justice of the Federal Court. Before he went to the Court of Appeal, Allsop J sat in a number of IP matters when he was a Federal Court justice.

The Attorney General’s Media Release.

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