Keith Mason (judge)
Keith Mason, AC, QC (born 18 February 1947) is a former President of the Court of Appeal of New South Wales, the highest civil court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy.
Education
Mason graduated from the University of Sydney with degrees in Arts (1967) and law (1970).
The University of Sydney awarded him an honorary doctorate of laws in 2005.
Career
Mason was admitted as a solicitor in 1970 and to the New South Wales Bar in 1972. He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1981. He became President of the Court of Appeal in 1997. Mason was Chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission from 1985-1987 and 1989-1990. He was Solicitor-General of NSW from 1987-1997. Mason became President of the Children's Medical Research Foundation in 1995.
Mason was sworn out of office on 30 May 2008.
Mason has also been a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji.
In 2006, he joined the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales as a Professorial Visiting Fellow. He is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School.[1]
Publications
Mason is co-author of Restitution Law in Australia (1995) with Professor John Carter, as well as the recent second edition, Mason & Carter's Restitution Law in Australia (2008).
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| Preceded by Dennis Mahoney |
President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal 1997–2008 |
Succeeded by James Allsop |
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