Nye Perram

{{short description|Australian judge (born 1969)}}

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Nye Perram (born 1969) is an Australian judge. He has been a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia since his appointment in August 2008 at the age of 39. Prior to his appointment, Perram practised as a Senior Counsel in Sydney.

Perram was educated at Sydney Boys' High School, and holds degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford.{{Cite web|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/NSWBarAssocNews/2008/72.pdf|title=The Hon Justice Nye Perram|access-date=1 June 2016}} He was admitted as a solicitor in 1992 (practising briefly with Mallesons Stephen Jaques) and then as a barrister before becoming Senior Counsel in 2006. While at the bar, Perram was a member of the New South Wales Bar Council.{{Citation

| last = NSW Bar Association

| title = The Hon Justice Nye Perram

| journal = Bar News: The Journal of the New South Wales Bar Association

| volume = 72

| issue = Summer 2008/09

| pages = 97–98

| year = 2008

| url = http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/NSWBarAssocNews/2008/72.html

}}

In addition to being a judge, Perram is also a Deputy President of the Copyright Tribunal of Australia, a Part-Time Commissioner with the Australian Law Reform Commission, and a Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/about/judges/current-judges-appointment/current-judges/perram-j |title=The Hon Nye PERRAM |publisher=Federal Court of Australia |access-date=27 March 2017}}

Perram also represented deposed Prime Minister of Fiji Laisenia Qarase in legal proceedings against his military replacement, Frank Bainimarama.

In 2025, he was invited to give Margaret Stone Lecture, a joint initiative of the University of New South Wales and Herbert Smith Freehills.{{Cite web |title=The Margaret Stone Lecture |url=https://www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/news-events/events/margaret-stone |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=University of New South Wales |language=en}}