Bill Fisher

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William Kenneth Fisher

QC
(12 April 1926 – 10 March 2010) was an Australian judge.

Fisher was born to William Charles Fisher and Phyllis Enid at

Queen's Counsel in 1971, ran as the Labor candidate for Lowe against Prime Minister William McMahon at the 1972 federal election, and was senior counsel in the Commonwealth Royal Commission on Petroleum, which issued its reports from 1974 to 1976.[2]

Fisher was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 30 July 1979, serving until 17 November 1981, when he was appointed President of the Industrial Commission of New South Wales. (During the period from 1992 to 1996, the Industrial Court was separated from the commission; Fisher was also Chief Judge of that body.) Serving for sixteen years until his retirement on 11 April 1998, he was the second-longest serving president in the commission's history.[3]

He was subsequently an acting judge of the District Court between 1998 and 2002, Chair of the New South Wales Parole Board from 1999 to 2002, Commissioner of the Review of Professional Standards in the Australian Federal Police in 2003, and a partner in the industrial law firm Fisher, Cartwright and Berriman from 1998 to 2006.[2]

References

  1. ^ Shields, John; Wright, Lance (25 March 2010). "Industrial judge and labour reformer: Bill Fisher, 1926-2010". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Hon. Mr Justice William Kenneth Fisher AO, QC, BA, LLB, Hon DScEc". NSW State Archives & Records. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
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