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 |
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]