Robert Brooking Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Robert Brooking
Office:Judge of the Court of Appeal (Vic)
Term Start:7 June 1995
Term End:6 March 2002
Office2:Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Term Start2:22 February 1977
Term End2:6 March 2002

Career

The Honourable Robert Brooking was a judge of the Court of Appeal of Victoria from 1995, having been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1977.[1] [2] He was also an acting judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory for 6 months in 2000–2001.[3]

Brooking was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1954 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1969.[3]

Brooking retired in 2002 after serving as a judge for 25 years.[4]

In 2003 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia "For service to the judiciary, particularly through the Victorian Court of Appeal, to the law in the areas of tenancy, building law and arbitration, and to the community".[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Past judges and associate judges . Supreme Court of Victoria . 23 February 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150226225443/http://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/home/about+the+court/our+judiciary/past+judges+and+associate+judges/ . 26 February 2015 .
  2. Web site: Laughing all the way to the County Court . The Age . Jackson, Andra . 27 November 2002 . 23 February 2015.
  3. Web site: The Honourable Robert Brooking . Supreme Court of the Northern Territory . 2 March 2019.
  4. Web site: The Honourable Professor Robert Brooking QC . (2002, Winter) 121 Victorian Bar News 16.
  5. Web site: The Honourable Justice Robert BROOKING . Australian Honours Search Facility . 2 March 2019.