According to a report in The Age online, Justice Kiefel of the Federal Court of Australia has been appointed as successor to Mr Justice Callinan, who must retire by 31 August 2007.
Ms Justice Kiefel was born in Queensland and studied at Cambridge. Her Honour has handed down some important trade practices, immigration and taxation decisions. According to this document on the Federal Court’s website:
Justice Kiefel is a member of the Board of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, a Council member of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences and a
member of the Organising Committee for Congress of Comparative Law for the University of
Queensland. Her Honour addressed the Year 12 students at All Hallows Convent in Brisbane
on ‘A Judicial Career’.
Interestingly, this means that five of the seven justices presently constituting the High Court have been appointed by the current federal government.
