Geoffrey Eames

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Geoffrey Michael Eames (born November 26, 1945 , Melbourne , Australia ) is an Australian lawyer , attorney , crown attorney and former chief justice at various supreme courts in Australia and Nauru . He is the holder of the Order of Australia .

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Eames received his education at St. Bernard's College in Essendon and studied law at the University of Melbourne , where he earned a Bachelor of Laws . He first worked as a trainee lawyer with the Slater and Gordon law firm and was admitted to the bar in 1969 for the state of Victoria and 1974 for the Northern Territory . In the 1970s, he was principal solicitor with the Central Australian Legal Service and was then appointed to the Central Land Council in Alice Springs , where he was responsible for conducting hearings and negotiating Aboriginal land claims in the Northern Territory. He then went to Darwin as a lawyer .

He was admitted to the bar for South Australia in 1980 and New South Wales in 1986 . He was a member of the Hanson Chambers law firm from 1987 to 1991 and became Crown Attorney in South Australia in 1989 and Victoria in 1990. In his time as a barrister he was involved in two Royal Commissions : the McClelland Royal Commission (on British nuclear weapons tests in Australia 1985) and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-1991).

In 1992 Eames became a judge on the Supreme Court of Victoria and was then a judge on the Court of Appeal from 2002 to 2007 . He was then acting judge at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory (2007-2009).

In December 2010, Eames was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the island state of Nauru . This court has only two members. In January 2014 the Chief Magistrate of Nauru, Peter Law , issued an injunction to prevent the deportation of three foreigners. Law was dismissed by President Baron Waqa and deported himself. Eames was currently in Australia and issued an injunction to prevent Law's deportation. This was nevertheless carried out. The government of Nauru revoked Eames' visa so that he was no longer allowed to enter, and he resigned from office two months later. The criticism of the Nauru opposition of the situation of the legal system later even resulted in the suspension of MPs (2014).

Publications

  • Geoffrey Eames with Wenten Rubuntja (Society of Labor Lawyers, Victoria): Land rights or a sell out? An analysis of the Aboriginal land rights (Northern Territory) bill, 1976. Victorian Fabian Society and Society of Labor Lawyers (Victoria), Central Australian Land Rights Bulletin 1976, Melbourne, ISBN 978-0909953126

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d John Emerson: History of the Independent Bar of South Australia . Papinian Publishing, 2006, ISBN 086396835X .
  2. ↑ a b c d Meldrum and Hyland Eames QC. October 7, 2013, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b The Honorable Geoffrey Michael Eames . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Past judges and associate judges . Supreme Court of Victoria. Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 30, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au
  5. ^ Nauru Chief Justice, Australian Geoffrey Eames, resigns . In: ABC News , March 13, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2017. 
  6. ↑ Nauru expels Australian magistrate Peter Law, Pubs chief justice Geoffrey Eames from returning to country. ABC News, Jan. 20, 2014.
  7. ^ Nauru opposition MPs still in limbo over suspensions . July 24, 2014.
  8. ^ RNZ: Nauru opposition MPs still in limbo over suspensions. July 24, 2014, accessed September 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Eames, Geoffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eames, Geoffrey Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian judge
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia