Stephen Hall (judge)

Stephen Hall is an Australian jurist who is a justice with the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He specialises in criminal, administrative, insolvency and company law.

Hall is a graduate of the University of Western Australia earning a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1983, a Bachelor of Laws in 1984 and Bachelor of Arts in 1987.[1][2]

Hall joined the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in Perth in 1986 in the Major Fraud Branch. He was then appointed as the Senior Assistant Director in its Commercial Prosecutions Branch in 1991. He then joined the Independent Bar of Western Australia in 1999 with Francis Burt Chambers and became a Senior Counsel (SC) in 2003.

He commenced at his current position in the Supreme Court on 6 July 2009. Hall then became well known as the presiding judge in a number of well known cases:[3]

References
  1. "Supreme Court of Western Australia Current Judges and Masters". Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  2. "New judge for the Supreme Court of Western Australia". 19 June 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  3. "A Judge alone: The man who decides Claremont fate". The West Australian. 16 February 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2020.


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