Peter Graham (judge)
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The Hon Peter Ross Graham is a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
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[edit] Pre-judicial career
Graham was educated at the University of Sydney and Harvard University. He commenced practice as a barrister in New South Wales in 1966, before becoming Queen's Counsel in 1982, practising mainly in commercial law. He served for a period as Acting Judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court in 1997.
[edit] Judicial career
Graham was appointed by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock as a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia on 7 April 2005, taking up his position on 24 May 2005.
Graham sits in the Sydney registry of the court. Some of his notable judgments include:
- *Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs v SZFDE[1]: Graham joined with Justice James Allsopp in the majority of the Full Bench of the court in holding that the fraud of a migration agent did not lead the Refugee Review Tribunal into jurisdictional error. Graham and Allsopp's judgments were overturned by a unanimous judgment of the High Court of Australia[2].
- *Telstra Corporation Limited v Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (No. 2)[3]: Graham J rejected a claim for legal professional privilege over internal legal advice prepared by in-house lawyers for Telstra. This created concerns in the legal community as to the extent that in-house legal advice is protected from disclosure to a court[4]. Graham is the presiding judge in litigation between Telstra and the Commonwealth of Australia over the awarding of a billion-dollar broadband contract to a competitor.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Federal Court page
- Attorney-General's media release: Appointment of Judges to the Federal Court of Australia, 7 April 2005.
