AUSTRALIA
Lawyers Weekly
16 January, 2013
Justin Whealing
Legal groups, including the Law Council of Australia, have welcomed the appointment of Justice Peter McClellan as chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
On Friday (11 January), the Federal Government formally established the Royal Commission, with Mclellan heading a six-member team of commissioners.
Mclellan is currently the chief judge at Common Law of the Supreme Court of NSW.
His almost 40 years of legal experience include being appointed as a Queen’s Counsel in 1985, being appointed to the Supreme Court of NSW in 2001 and being appointed the chief judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW in 2003.
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