Margaret Stone (judge)

The Honourable Justice
Margaret Stone
Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
In office
9 October 2000  22 March 2012
Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
Assumed office
November 2003
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Assumed office
24 August 2015
Personal details
Nationality Australian
Alma mater University of Sydney;
Australian National University;
Yale Law School
Occupation Judge

Margaret Ackary Stone is a former Australian judge who served on the Federal Court of Australia. Since August 2015 Stone has served as the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security.[1]

Background and career

Stone holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Laws with honours from the Australian National University, and a Master of Laws from Yale Law School. She became a partner at Freehills in 1993, where she worked in the areas of commercial property, infrastructure development, commercial financing, and taxation. Stone was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Australia in October 2000, a position which she held until 2012.[2][3][4]

Stone taught law at the University of New South Wales for over 15 years, including a role as Sub-Dean in 1981. Since retiring she is now a Visiting Professorial Fellow.[5]

Between December 2012 and December 2014 she served as Australia's Independent Reviewer of Adverse Security Assessments. Adverse security assessments are findings by the Australian Security and intelligence Organisation that a person who has been found to be a refugee is a security risk. Such people are kept in detention until such time as it is determined that they are no longer security risks. They do not have access to the evidence on which the assessments are made; but in some cases may have some indications of the nature of the accusations. Dr. Stone has reviewed 22 of 52 adverse assessments as of June 2014, as a result of which four people have had their adverse assessments removed.

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Legal offices
Preceded by
James Burchett
Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
2000–2012
Succeeded by
John Griffiths
Preceded by
Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
2003-present
Incumbent
Preceded by
Vivienne Thom
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
2015-present
Incumbent


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