List of judges of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island explained

The Judges of the Supreme Court of Norfolk IslandSupreme Court of Norfolk Island are generally appointed from among Justices of the Federal Court who may sit on the Australian mainland or they may convene the court on Norfolk Island depending on the type of matter they may be dealing with.

Supreme Court sittings are generally conducted on a circuit court basis with Judges attending on Norfolk Island where the volume of work may be sufficient to justify the travel or where a regular court sitting has not been convened for some time or where the law governing a particular matter may require that the court be convened on Norfolk Island and not elsewhere (e.g. most criminal law matters except sexual offences which may now be tried off-island).

The Court staff are generally resident on Norfolk Island.

List of Judges (including Chief Justices)

Position	Name	data-sort-type="date"	Appointment commenced	data-sort-type="date"	Appointment ended	Term	Comments	Notes
					Federal Court	^[1]
				years	Federal Court	^[2]
					Federal Court	^[3]
					Federal Court ACT Supreme Court
					Federal Court
					Federal Court ACT Supreme Court	^[4]
					Federal Court	^[5]
				years	Commonwealth Industrial Court (1960–1974) ACT Supreme Court (1960–1974)	^[6]
					Commonwealth Industrial Court (1960–1977) ACT Supreme Court (1960–1977) NT Supreme Court (1961–1977)	^[7]
					Commonwealth Industrial Court (1956–1982) ACT Supreme Court (1958–1982) Supreme Court of Christmas Island (1961–1982) Supreme Court of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (1961–1982) Court of Appeal of Nauru (1967–1982)	^[8]
					Federal Court Australian Industrial Court ACT Supreme Court NT Supreme Court	^[9]
					Federal Court	^[10]
					Federal Court	^[11]
					Chief Justice of Industrial Relations Court Federal Court ACT Supreme Court
				years	Federal Court
					Federal Court
					Federal Court
					Federal Court
					Federal Court ACT Supreme Court
				years	Federal Court
					Federal Court ACT Supreme Court	^[12]
					Federal Court
					Federal Court ACT Supreme Court	^[13]
			<	--Future -->		Federal Court ACT Supreme Court Supreme Court of Norfolk Island Admiralty Rules Committee	^[14] ^[15] ^[16]

References

Notes and References

1. Web site: Appointment of Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island . PDF . . 2686 . 17 March 1969.
2. News: Judges appointed . . 13 May 1989 . 17 October 2018 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
3. Web site: Federal Court of Australia judicial changes the first 30 years (1977-2007) . https://web.archive.org/web/20170225030635/http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/42455/Healey-Judicial-changes-to-2007.pdf . 25 February 2017 . dead.
4. Web site: Judicial Appointments for Norfolk Island . Australian Government . 6 June 2018 . 10 March 2015.
5. https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/mcbain/media-release/new-chief-justice-supreme-court-norfolk-island
6. Web site: Appointment of the Honourable Richard Moulton Eggleston as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island . PDF . . 4133 . 1 December 1960.
7. Web site: Appointment of the Honourable Percy Joske as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island . PDF . . 70 . 13 January 1966.
8. Web site: Appointment of the Honourable Edward Arthur Dunphy as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island . PDF . . 2686 . 17 March 1969.
9. Web site: Appointment of the Honourable Robert St John as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island . PDF . . 9 . 22 August 1978.
10. Web site: Appointment of the Honourable Phillip George Evatt as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island . PDF . . 2–3 . 24 February 1981.
11. Web site: Appointment of the Honourable Trevor Morling as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island . PDF . . 1042 . 20 March 1984.
12. Web site: Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2013-14 . Federal Court . 6 June 2018.
13. Web site: Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2016-17 . Federal Court . 6 June 2018.
14. Web site: Appointments and remuneration pursuant to the Order of the Senate for the period: 2 October 2018 to 28 January 2019 . The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development . 18 January 2020.
15. Web site: Steven David Rares : Government Online Directory . Commonwealth of Australia. 18 January 2020.
16. Web site: Biography of Justice Steven Rares. Federal Court of Australia. 18 January 2020.