Terry Buddin

{{Short description|Retired Judge of NSW Supreme Court}}

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Terry Buddin {{post-nominals/AUS|SC}} is presently Inspector of the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission{{Cite news|last=Thompson|first=Angus|date=2020-02-25|title=Strip search inquiry revived amid questions over watchdog's future|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/uncertainty-over-police-watchdog-s-leadership-amid-strip-search-inquiry-20200225-p5446z.html|access-date=2021-04-07|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|quote=Asked what needed to happen to stabilise the agency, Terry Buddin, SC, the Inspector of the LECC, said...}}{{Cite news|date=24 Dec 2019|title=NSW police oversight chief to step aside|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/nsw-police-oversight-chief-to-step-aside/news-story/0856546f1c9730f08e82f5e5f91b4ed6|access-date=2021-04-07|website=The Australian|quote=The investigation was carried out by the LECC's independent inspector, Terry Buddin SC, who delivered his findings to the NSW government...}}{{Cite web|date=22 June 2017|title=NOMINEES FOR KEY INTEGRITY INSTITUTIONS|url=https://inbrief.nswbar.asn.au/posts/4df95d7a2fb43495d59665ad0611fd6c/attachment/icac_23062017.PDF}} in the state of New South Wales, Australia. From 1995 to 1997, he was Director of Public Prosecutions of the Australian Capital Territory.{{Cite web|date=2019-08-01|title=The Director of Public Prosecutions|url=https://www.dpp.act.gov.au/about_the_dpp/the-director-of-public-prosecutions|access-date=2021-04-07|website=www.dpp.act.gov.au|language=en}} On 30 January 2002, he was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.{{Cite web|date=30 January 2002|title=Swearing In Ceremony of the Honourable Terence Lionel Buddin SC as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales|url=https://www.supremecourt.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/Publications/Speeches/Pre-2015%20Speeches/Assorted%20-%20A%20to%20K/buddin_2002.01.30.pdf|website=Supreme Court of New South Wales}} He retired from the Court on 16 March 2012. Since 2012 he is a professor at the University of Wollongong School of Law, where he has the title Judge-in-Residence.{{Cite web|title=Our people - University of Wollongong – UOW|url=https://www.uow.edu.au/business-law/schools-entities/law/our-people/|access-date=2021-04-07|website=www.uow.edu.au|language=en}} In 2013, he was appointed an acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia to hear the appeal of the acquittal of Lloyd Rayney.{{Cite web|title=Acting Justice Terry Buddin delivers judgment in high-profile WA murder case|url=https://documents.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@media/documents/web/uow159507.pdf}}{{Cite web|date=2013-08-05|title=Prosecutors want retrial over Lloyd Rayney acquittal|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-05/names-of-judges-revealed-for-rayney-appeal/4866218|access-date=2021-04-07|website=www.abc.net.au|language=en-AU}} He is a graduate of the University of Sydney (BA 1969, LLB 1972).{{Cite journal|last=Ware|first=Oscar|date=2008|title=Legal eagles|url=https://www.alumni.sydney.edu.au/s/965/images/editor_documents/alumni-magazine/08-summer/sam_sumer08_09.pdf|journal=Sydney Alumni Magazine|volume=Summer 2008/09|pages=13}}