Minister for Youth Justice (New South Wales)
Minister for Justice of New South Wales | |
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Appointer | Governor of New South Wales |
Precursor | Minister of Justice and Public Instruction |
Formation | 1 May 1880 |
First holder | Francis Suttor |
Final holder | Troy Grant |
Abolished | 30 January 2017 |
Succession | Minister for Counter Terrorism |
The Minister of Justice, subsequently Minister for Justice, was a ministry in the administration of New South Wales, established in 1880 in the third ministry of Henry Parkes and abolished in 2017. The position supports the Attorney General and was sometimes, although not always, held concurrently with that office.[1]
Role and responsibilities
Prior to 1880 the Minister of Justice and Public Instruction was responsible for the administration of the courts, sheriff and coroner, as well as the Council of Education, orphan schools, the public library, Australian Museum and observatory.[2] In 1880 the ministry was split into the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Instruction following the passage of the Public Instruction Act of 1880 which required a minister to assume the responsibilities of the former Council of Education.[3][4]
The minister also assumed responsibility for prisons which had previously been the responsibility of the Colonial Secretary, however the Colonial Secretary retained responsibility for police.[3] The Minister for Justice was briefly responsible for Police from 1974 until 1975.[5] In 1978 the minister ceased to be responsible for prisons which became the responsibility of the Minister for Corrective Services.[3]
The ministry was held by the Attorney General in the third to sixth Wran ministries and was formally subsumed into the responsibilities of the Attorney General in the seventh Wran ministry in 1984. The portfolio was re-created in 1991, known for three weeks as the Minister for Courts Administration and Corrective Services, before returning to the name Minister for Justice.[6] The ministry was abolished in the First Carr ministry in 1995, with justice returning to be the responsibility of the Attorney General,[3] and juvenile justice being the responsibility of a separate minister. It was re-created in the Fourth Carr ministry in 2003 and was abolished in the Rees ministry in 2011.[7] The portfolio was re-created in the O'Farrell ministry in 2011, combined with the portfolio of police in 2015 and was abolished in the first Berejiklian ministry in 2017, replaced by the Minister for Counter Terrorism.[8]
List of Ministers for Justice
Title | Minister [1] | Party | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | |
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Minister of Justice | Francis Suttor | None | 1 May 1880 | 10 August 1880 | 101 days | ||
Sir Joseph Innes | 11 August 1880 | 13 October 1881 | 63 days | ||||
William Foster | 14 October 1881 | 4 January 1883 | 1 year, 82 days | ||||
Henry Cohen | 5 January 1883 | 6 October 1885 | 2 years, 274 days | ||||
James Farnell | 7 October 1885 | 9 October 1885 | 2 days | ||||
Thomas Slattery | 2 November 1885 | 21 December 1885 | 49 days | ||||
Louis Heydon | 22 December 1885 | 4 February 1886 | 44 days | ||||
James Garvan | Protectionist | 26 February 1886 | 19 January 1887 | 327 days | |||
William Clarke | Free Trade | 20 January 1887 | 16 January 1889 | 1 year, 362 days | |||
Thomas Slattery | Protectionist | 17 January 1889 | 7 March 1889 | 49 days | |||
Albert Gould | Free Trade | 8 March 1889 | 22 October 1891 | 2 years, 228 days | |||
Richard O'Connor | Protectionist | 23 October 1891 | 14 December 1893 | 2 years, 52 days | |||
Thomas Slattery | 15 December 1893 | 2 August 1894 | 230 days | ||||
Albert Gould | Free Trade | 3 August 1894 | 15 August 1898 | 4 years, 12 days | |||
Charles Lee | 17 August 1898 | 3 July 1899 | 320 days | ||||
John Hughes | 3 July 1899 | 13 September 1899 | 72 days | ||||
William Wood | Protectionist | 14 September 1899 | 9 April 1901 | 1 year, 207 days | |||
Robert Fitzgerald | Progressive | 11 April 1901 | 16 July 1901 | 96 days | |||
Bernhard Wise [a] | 22 July 1901 | 14 June 1904 | 2 years, 328 days | ||||
Thomas Waddell | Progressive | 15 June 1904 | 29 August 1904 | 75 days | |||
Charles Wade | Liberal Reform | 29 August 1904 | 20 December 1909 | 5 years, 113 days | |||
John Garland | 21 December 1909 | 20 October 1910 | 303 days | ||||
William Holman | Labor | 21 October 1910 | 1 April 1912 | 1 year, 163 days | |||
David Hall | 2 April 1912 | 15 November 1916 | 4 years, 227 days | ||||
John Garland | Nationalist | 15 November 1916 | 23 July 1919 | 2 years, 250 days | |||
Jack FitzGerald | 23 July 1919 | 12 April 1920 | 264 days | ||||
Edward McTiernan | Labor | 12 April 1920 | 21 December 1920 | 253 days | |||
William McKell [b] | 22 December 1920 | 10 October 1921 | 292 days | [10] | |||
Thomas Bavin | Nationalist | 20 December 1921 | 20 December 1921 | 7 hours | |||
William McKell | Labor | 20 December 1921 | 13 April 1922 | 114 days | |||
Thomas Ley | Nationalist | 13 April 1922 | 17 June 1925 | 3 years, 65 days | |||
William McKell | Labor | 17 June 1925 | 7 June 1927 | 1 year, 355 days | |||
Andrew Lysaght | 8 June 1927 | 18 October 1927 | 132 days | ||||
Minister for Justice | John Lee | Nationalist | 18 October 1927 | 3 November 1930 | 3 years, 16 days | ||
Joseph Lamaro | Labor | 4 November 1930 | 17 June 1931 | 225 days | |||
William McKell | 17 June 1931 | 13 May 1932 | 331 days | ||||
Sir Daniel Levy | United Australia | 16 May 1932 | 17 June 1932 | 32 days | |||
Lewis Martin | 18 June 1932 | 16 August 1939 | 7 years, 59 days | ||||
Vernon Treatt | 16 August 1939 | 16 May 1941 | 1 year, 273 days | ||||
Reg Downing | Labor | 19 May 1941 | 31 May 1960 | 19 years, 12 days | |||
Jack Mannix | 31 May 1960 | 13 May 1965 | 4 years, 347 days | ||||
John Maddison | Liberal | 13 May 1965 | 11 May 1976 | 10 years, 364 days | |||
Ron Mulock | Labor | 14 May 1976 | 19 October 1978 | 2 years, 158 days | |||
Frank Walker | 19 October 1978 | 1 February 1983 | 4 years, 105 days | ||||
Paul Landa | 1 February 1983 | 5 April 1984 | 1 year, 64 days | ||||
Minister for Justice | Terry Griffiths [c] | Liberal | 28 June 1991 | 23 September 1992 | 1 year, 87 days | [1] | |
Ted Pickering | 23 September 1992 | 22 October 1992 | 29 days | ||||
Wayne Merton | 22 October 1992 | 26 May 1993 | 216 days | ||||
John Hannaford | 26 May 1993 | 4 April 1995 | 1 year, 313 days | ||||
Minister for Justice | John Hatzistergos | Labor | 2 April 2003 | 3 August 2005 | 2 years, 123 days | [1] | |
Tony Kelly | 3 August 2005 | 2 April 2007 | 1 year, 242 days | ||||
John Hatzistergos | 2 April 2007 | 30 January 2009 | 1 year, 303 days | ||||
Minister for Justice | Greg Smith | Liberal | 3 April 2011 | 17 April 2014 | 3 years, 14 days | [1] | |
Brad Hazzard | 23 April 2014 | 2 April 2015 | 344 days | ||||
Minister for Justice and Police | Troy Grant | National | 2 April 2015 | 30 January 2017 | 1 year, 303 days |
Former ministerial titles
Justice and Public Instruction
Notes
- ^ Bernhard Wise was the Attorney General and took on the additional responsibilities following the electoral defeat of Robert Fitzgerald.
- ^ William McKell was appointed as a Minister without Portfolio to be Assistant Minister of Justice from 12 April 1920,[9] and appointed Minister on 22 December 1920.
- ^ Known for 22 days as the Minister for Courts Administration and Corrective Services.
References
- ^ a b c d e "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ "PFO-5 Justice and Public Instruction". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ a b c d "PFO-6 Justice". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ Public Instruction Act of 1880 (nsw)
- ^ "PFO-20 Police". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ "PFO-7 Justice". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ "PFO-285 Justice". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ "PFO-339 Justice". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ "Appointment of Assistant Minister of Justice (73)". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 12 April 1920. p. 2286. Retrieved 10 October 2021 – via Trove.
- ^ "Appointment of Minister of Justice (218)". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 31 December 1920. p. 7685. Retrieved 10 October 2021 – via Trove.