Geoffrey Nettle
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The Honourable Justice Geoffrey Nettle |
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| Justice of the High Court of Australia | |
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Assumed office 3 February 2015 |
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| Nominated by | Tony Abbott |
| Appointed by | Sir Peter Cosgrove |
| Preceded by | Susan Crennan |
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| Born |
2 December 1950 Cottesloe, Western Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater |
Australian National University University of Melbourne University of Oxford |
Geoffrey Arthur Akeroyd Nettle (born 2 December 1950) is a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. Prior to his appointment to the High Court, he was a judge of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, in the Australian state of Victoria.
Geoffrey Nettle was born in Cottesloe, Western Australia, a beachside suburb of Perth and moved to Victoria at an early age. Nettle received his secondary education at Wesley College, Melbourne.
Nettle completed a Bachelor of Economics at the Australian National University followed by a Bachelor of Laws, for which he received First Class Honours, at the University of Melbourne in 1975. While studying at Melbourne, he was a resident at Trinity College, where he rowed and played rugby. Nettle then completed a Bachelor of Civil Laws with First-Class Honours at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Nettle was admitted to practise in 1977 and was a solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons). He was called to the bar in November 1982. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1992. His major areas of practice were commercial law, taxation, constitutional law and administrative law. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Trial Division, in 2002, and a Judge of Appeal of the Victorian Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, in 2004.
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