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Geoffrey Arthur Akeroyd Nettle (born 2 December 1950〔 (subscriber only)〕) is a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. Prior to his appointment to the High Court, he was a judge of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, in the Australian state of Victoria. Justice Nettle completed a Bachelor of Economics at the Australian National University followed by a Bachelor of Laws, for which he received First Class Honours, at the University of Melbourne in 1975. While studying at Melbourne, he was a resident at Trinity College, where he rowed and played rugby. He then completed a Bachelor of Civil Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Oxford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Melbourne Law School : Awards Ceremony for the 2009 Academic Year )〕 Nettle was admitted to practise in 1977 and was a solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons). He was called to the bar in November 1982. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1992. His major areas of practice were commercial law, taxation, constitutional law and administrative law. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Trial Division, in 2002, and a Judge of Appeal of the Victorian Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, in 2004.〔(Attorney-General's announcement ) Retrieved 4 December 2014.〕 Unusually for an Appeal Justice, in 2013 he presided over the trial at first instance of Adrian Ernest Bayley for the rape and murder of Irishwoman Jill Meagher in Melbourne, Australia. On 4 December 2014 the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Senator George Brandis, announced that Nettle would become a justice of the High Court of Australia, replacing Justice Susan Crennan who would retire on 3 February 2015.〔 Nettle will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 for High Court justices in 2020.〔Constitution, section 72.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoffrey Nettle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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