| Post: | Minister of Youth Justice |
| Body: | New South Wales |
| Insignia: | Coat of Arms of New South Wales.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Appointer: | Governor of New South Wales |
| Precursor: | Minister of Justice Minister for Juvenile Justice |
| Formation: | 8 April 1999 |
| First: | Carmel Tebbutt |
The Minister for Youth Justice, formerly Minister for Juvenile Justice, is a ministry in the administration of New South Wales. The position supports the Attorney General and has occasionally been held concurrently with that office.
Prior to 1873 there were two legal officers in the ministry, Attorney General and the Solicitor General, however there was only one portfolio, the law officers of the crown. The Attorney was the senior law officer and responsible for the work of the Solicitor-General, Crown Solicitors, parliamentary draftsmen, the administration of the courts and supporting officers such as the Sheriff and Coroner. The Solicitor General represented the crown in court, provided legal advice to the government, drafted bills and helped to prepare civil and criminal litigation.[1]
When the Attorney General Edward Butler resigned, the Solicitor General Joseph Innes was promoted to first law officer. Innes was not however replaced as Solicitor General. Instead Parkes created the new ministry of justice and public instruction. The minister assumed responsibility for the administration of the courts, sheriff and coroner, as well as the Council of Education, orphan schools, the public library, Australian Museum and observatory.[2] The first minister George Allen, was a solicitor who had a particular interest in education, having previously served as a commissioner of National education, supported the incorporation of the Sydney Grammar School and having a seat on the Council of Education immediately prior to his appointment as responsible minister.
Prisons remained the responsibility of the Colonial Secretary.[3] In 1880 the ministry was split into the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Instruction.[2]
Prior to 1880 the Minister of Justice and Public Instruction was responsible for the administration of the courts, sheriff and coroner, as well as the Council of Education, orphan schools, the public library, Australian Museum and observatory.[4] In 1880 the ministry was split into the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Instruction following the passage of the Public Instruction Act of 1880 which required a minister to assume the responsibilities of the former Council of Education.[5]
The minister also assumed responsibility for prisons which had previously been the responsibility of the Colonial Secretary, however the Colonial Secretary retained responsibility for police.[3] The Minister for Justice was briefly responsible for Police from 1974 until 1975.[6] In 1978 the minister ceased to be responsible for prisons which became the responsibility of the Minister for Corrective Services.[5]
The ministry was held by the Attorney General in the third to sixth Wran ministries and was formally subsumed into the responsibilities of the Attorney General in the seventh Wran ministry in 1984. The portfolio was re-created in 1991, known for three weeks as the Minister for Courts Administration and Corrective Services, before returning to the name Minister for Justice.[7] The ministry was abolished in the First Carr ministry in 1995, with justice returning to be the responsibility of the Attorney General,[3] and juvenile justice being the responsibility of a separate minister. It was re-created in the Fourth Carr ministry in 2003 and was abolished in the Rees ministry in 2011.[8] The portfolio was re-created in the O'Farrell ministry in 2011, combined with the portfolio of police in 2015 and was abolished in the first Berejiklian ministry in 2017, replaced by the Minister for Counter Terrorism.[9]
| Title | Minister | Party | data-sort-type="date" | Term start ! | data-sort-type=date | Term end ! | Time in office | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister for Juvenile Justice | align=center | 8 April 1999 | align=center | 2 April 2003 | align=right | |||||
| align=center | 2 April 2003 | align=center | 3 August 2005 | align=right | ||||||
| align=center | 3 August 2005 | align=center | 2 April 2007 | align=right | ||||||
| align=center | 2 April 2007 | align=center | 11 April 2007 | align=right | ||||||
| align=center | 11 April 2007 | align=center | 5 September 2008 | align=right | ||||||
| align=center | 8 September 2008 | align=center | 5 June 2010 | align=right | ||||||
| align=center | 5 June 2010 | align=center | 28 March 2011 | align=right | ||||||
| Minister for Mental Health | 28 March 2023 | 5 April 2023 | ||||||||
| Minister for Youth Justice | 5 April 2023 | present | ||||||||
| Post: | Minister of Justice and Public Instruction |
| Body: | New South Wales |
| Insignia: | Coat of Arms of New South Wales.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Appointer: | Governor of New South Wales |
| Formation: | 9 December 1873 |
| First: | George Allen |
| Last: | Francis Suttor |
| Abolished: | 30 April 1880 |
| Succession: | Minister of Justice Minister of Public Instruction |
| Post: | Minister for Justice |
| Body: | New South Wales |
| Insignia: | Coat of Arms of New South Wales.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Appointer: | Governor of New South Wales |
| Precursor: | Minister of Justice and Public Instruction |
| Formation: | 1 May 1880 |
| First: | Francis Suttor |
| Last: | Troy Grant |
| Abolished: | 30 January 2017 |
| Succession: | Minister for Counter Terrorism |
| Title | Minister | Party | data-sort-type="date" | Term start ! | data-sort-type=date | Term end ! | Time in office | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister of Justice and Public Instruction | None | 9 December 1873 | 8 February 1875 | [10] | |||||
| 9 February 1875 | 21 March 1877 | [11] | |||||||
| 22 March 1877 | 16 August 1877 | ||||||||
| 17 August 1877 | 17 December 1877 | [12] | |||||||
| 18 December 1877 | 20 December 1878 | [13] | |||||||
| 21 December 1878 | 30 April 1880 | ||||||||
| Minister of Justice | 1 May 1880 | 10 August 1880 | |||||||
| 11 August 1880 | 13 October 1881 | ||||||||
| 14 October 1881 | 4 January 1883 | ||||||||
| 5 January 1883 | 6 October 1885 | ||||||||
| 7 October 1885 | 9 October 1885 | ||||||||
| 2 November 1885 | 21 December 1885 | ||||||||
| 22 December 1885 | 4 February 1886 | ||||||||
| 26 February 1886 | 19 January 1887 | ||||||||
| 20 January 1887 | 16 January 1889 | ||||||||
| 17 January 1889 | 7 March 1889 | ||||||||
| 8 March 1889 | 22 October 1891 | ||||||||
| 23 October 1891 | 14 December 1893 | ||||||||
| 15 December 1893 | 2 August 1894 | ||||||||
| 3 August 1894 | 15 August 1898 | ||||||||
| 17 August 1898 | 3 July 1899 | ||||||||
| 3 July 1899 | 13 September 1899 | ||||||||
| 14 September 1899 | 9 April 1901 | ||||||||
| 11 April 1901 | 16 July 1901 | ||||||||
| 22 July 1901 | 14 June 1904 | ||||||||
| 15 June 1904 | 29 August 1904 | ||||||||
| 29 August 1904 | 20 December 1909 | ||||||||
| 21 December 1909 | 20 October 1910 | ||||||||
| 21 October 1910 | 1 April 1912 | ||||||||
| 2 April 1912 | 15 November 1916 | ||||||||
| 15 November 1916 | 23 July 1919 | ||||||||
| 23 July 1919 | 12 April 1920 | ||||||||
| 12 April 1920 | 21 December 1920 | ||||||||
| 22 December 1920 | 10 October 1921 | ||||||||
| 20 December 1921 | 20 December 1921 | 7 hours | |||||||
| 20 December 1921 | 13 April 1922 | ||||||||
| 13 April 1922 | 17 June 1925 | ||||||||
| 17 June 1925 | 7 June 1927 | ||||||||
| 8 June 1927 | 18 October 1927 | ||||||||
| Minister for Justice | 18 October 1927 | 3 November 1930 | |||||||
| 4 November 1930 | 17 June 1931 | ||||||||
| 17 June 1931 | 13 May 1932 | ||||||||
| 16 May 1932 | 17 June 1932 | ||||||||
| 18 June 1932 | 16 August 1939 | ||||||||
| 16 August 1939 | 16 May 1941 | ||||||||
| 19 May 1941 | 31 May 1960 | ||||||||
| 31 May 1960 | 13 May 1965 | ||||||||
| 13 May 1965 | 11 May 1976 | ||||||||
| 14 May 1976 | 19 October 1978 | ||||||||
| 19 October 1978 | 1 February 1983 | ||||||||
| 1 February 1983 | 5 April 1984 | ||||||||
| Minister for Justice | 28 June 1991 | 23 September 1992 | |||||||
| 23 September 1992 | 22 October 1992 | ||||||||
| 22 October 1992 | 26 May 1993 | ||||||||
| 26 May 1993 | 4 April 1995 | ||||||||
| Minister for Justice | 2 April 2003 | 3 August 2005 | |||||||
| 3 August 2005 | 2 April 2007 | ||||||||
| 2 April 2007 | 30 January 2009 | ||||||||
| Minister for Justice | 3 April 2011 | 17 April 2014 | |||||||
| 23 April 2014 | 2 April 2015 | ||||||||
| Minister for Justice and Police | 2 April 2015 | 30 January 2017 | |||||||