Brian Preston

The Honourable Justice
Brian J. Preston
5th Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court (NSW)
Assumed office
14 November 2005
Personal details
Born (1958-06-10) June 10, 1958
Nationality Australian
Education Macquarie University
Occupation Judge, Lawyer

Brian J. Preston (born 10 June 1958) is the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. He was appointed on 14 November 2005.[1]

Career

Preston graduated from Macquarie University in 1982. He practised as a solicitor from 1982 to 1987, and as a barrister from 1987 to 2005.[1]

He began his career at Stephen Jaques & Stephen, in the firm’s resources group. Then became associate to Mr Justice O’Leary of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.[2]

Preston was Principal Solicitor at the NSW Environmental Defender's Office from March 1985, overseeing its official opening in May that year.[3]

He received in 2010 an award from the Asian Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network (AECEN) for his environmental work.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.lec.justice.nsw.gov.au/lec/judicial_officers.html, NSW government website, "Judicial officers and decision makers", accessed 5 November 2014.
  2. ↑ The Hon Brian Preston Chief Judge, Land and Environment Court.
  3. ↑ Robinson, David (1996) "The Environmental Defender's Office NSW, 1985-1995" in Environmental and Planning Law Journal [June 1996] - "edo.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
  4. ↑ Trevor Daya-Winterbottom, Profiling Justice Brian Preston (Environmental Law Annual Colloquium (University of Waikato, New Zealand).

 

 

Legal offices
Preceded by
Peter McClellan		 Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court (NSW)
2005–		 Incumbent


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