Geoffrey Eames

Geoffrey Michael Eames AM, QC (born 26 November 1945)[1] is an Australian jurist, who was a Court of Appeal justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria. He served on the Trials court from 1992 to 2002, and then on the Court of Appeal until 2007. After retirement he also served as acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory from 2007 to 2008.[2] In December 2010, he was appointed Chief Justice of the two-member Supreme Court of Nauru. In January 2014, the Nauru government cancelled Eames' visa, and he resigned two months later.[3]

Early life

Eames was born in Melbourne in 1945. He was educated at St. Bernard's College in Essendon, then studied law at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws.[1]

Eames did articles at the firm of Slater and Gordon, and was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1969.[1] In the 1970s he joined the Central Australian Legal Service as its principle Solicitor, and was then seconded to the Central Land Council in Alice Springs where he pioneered all early land claims made under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, Northern Territory, 1976 and the passage of the legislation itself, before heading to the bar in Darwin.

In 1980, he was admitted to the bar in South Australia, joining the independent bar in 1984. Eames was a member of Hanson Chambers from 1987 to 1991, and took silk as a Queen's Counsel in South Australia in 1989 and in Victoria in 1990. During this time he worked as a barrister in two Royal Commissions: the McClelland Royal Commission (1985) into British nuclear testing in Australia, and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987–1991).[1]

Supreme Court of Victoria

On 26 May 1992, Eames was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. On 15 March 2002 he because a judge of the Court of Appeal.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Emerson, John (2006). History of the Independent Bar of South Australia. Papinian Publishing. ISBN 086396835X.
  2. ↑ "Geoffrey M (The Hon) Eames QC". Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Nauru chief justice, Australian Geoffrey Eames, resigns". ABC News. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Past judges and associate judges". Supreme Court of Victoria. Retrieved 30 April 2017.

Eames, Geoff; Rubuntja, Wenten; Society of Labor Lawyers (Victoria) (1976), Land rights or a sell out? : an analysis of the Aboriginal land rights (Northern Territory) bill, 1976 (various editions 1976 ed.), [Melbourne] Victorian Fabian Society and Society of Labor Lawyers (Victoria) by arrangement with the Central Australian Land Rights Bulletin, ISBN 978-0-909953-12-6



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