Keith Mason (judge)
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| office = President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
| term_start = 4 February 1997
| term_end = 30 May 2008
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| successor = James Allsop
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| father = Edward Mason, merchant mariner
| relatives = Louise Gardiner - Sister
| residence = Sydney Australia
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Keith Mason, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|KC}} (born 18 February 1947) is a former President of the Court of Appeal of New South Wales, the highest civil court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy, serving between 1997 and 30 May 2008.
Mason is currently the chairman of the New South Wales Electoral Commission.{{cite web |url=https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/About-us/Governance/Three-member-statutory-authority |title=Members of the NSW Electoral Commission statutory authority |publisher=New South Wales Electoral Commission |date=10 December 2018 |access-date=20 January 2019}}
Biography
Mason graduated from the University of Sydney with degrees in Arts (1967) and law (1970). The university awarded him an honorary doctorate of laws in 2005.
Mason was admitted as a solicitor in 1970 and to the New South Wales Bar in 1972. He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1981. He became president of the Court of Appeal in 1997. Mason was chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission from 1985 to 1987 and 1989 to 1990. He was Solicitor-General of NSW from 1987 to 1997.{{cite book |title=Role of the Solicitor-General |last=Appleby |first=G |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=9781509903962 |page=321}} Mason became president of the Children's Medical Research Foundation in 1995.{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/NSWBarAssocNews/2008/33.pdf |title=The Hon Justice Keith Mason AC |work=NSW Bar Association News |publisher=AustLII |date=2008 |access-date=17 August 2016 }}
Mason has also been a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji.
In 2006, he joined the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales as a Professorial Visiting Fellow. He is also a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/masters/community/staff-profile/username/Keith%20Mason%20AC%20QC |title=Staff Profile |accessdate=2013-08-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712123454/http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/masters/community/staff-profile/username/Keith%20Mason%20AC%20QC |archivedate=12 July 2013 |df=dmy }}
For many years Mason has been chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Armidale. He is also the president of the National Appellate Tribunal, the highest ecclesiastical court of appeals in the Anglican Church of Australia.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/profile/keith-mason |title=Keith Mason |work=USW Law |publisher=University of New South Wales |date= |access-date=27 July 2017 }}
Mason was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2003 for service to the law and legal scholarship, to the judicial system in New South Wales, to the Anglican Church, and to the community.{{Cite It's an Honour |ausawardid=1041302 |date=26 January 2003 |recipient=Keith Mason |award=Order of Australia |postnominal=AC |citation= |postscript= |accessdate=17 August 2016 }}
Honours
Mason was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2003 for "service to the law and legal scholarship, to the judicial system in New South Wales, to the Anglican Church, and to the community".{{cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1041302 |title=Mason, Keith: Companion of the Order of Australia |website=Australian Honours Search Facility |accessdate=20 January 2019}}
Publications
Mason is co-author of Restitution Law in Australia (1995) with Professor John Carter, as well as the second edition, Mason & Carter's Restitution Law in Australia (2008).
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External links
- [http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/lrc/ll_lrc.nsf/pages/LRC_mason2 Law Reform Commission of New South Wales]
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Category:Australian King's Counsel
Category:Companions of the Order of Australia
Category:Solicitors general for New South Wales
Category:Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Category:Presidents of the NSW Court of Appeal
Category:Supreme Court of Fiji justices