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Tom Bathurst was called to the bar in and appointed Queen's Counsel in He practised primarily in the fields of corporate law, commercial law..
The Hon. Thomas Frederick Bathurst AC. Seventeenth Chief Justice of New South Wales.
Tom Bathurst
Australian judge
Thomas Frederick Bathurst (born 17 March 1948), is an England-born Australian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1 June 2011 to 5 March 2022.
He has served as Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales from 1 February 2012 to 5 December 2022.
Early years and education
Thomas Frederick Bathurst was born on St Patrick's Day 1948 in Richmond, Surrey, today part of Greater London.
His parents were both Australian – his mother Joan Hartigan was a champion tennis player, while his father Hugh Moxon Bathurst was a public servant who was private secretary to Senator James Fraser when their engagement was announced.[1] They married at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, in April 1947, before flying to Perth to board the Orion for England, where they planned to live for a few years while Joan resumed her tennis career.[2][3]
In 1950, Bathurst returned to Sydney with his parents on the