Brian Preston
Brian J. Preston (born 10 June 1958) is the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. He was appointed on 14 November 2005.[1]
Career
Preston graduated from Macquarie University in 1982. He practised as a solicitor from 1982 to 1987, and as a barrister from 1987 to 2005.[1]
He began his career at Stephen Jaques & Stephen, in the firm’s resources group. Then became associate to Mr Justice O’Leary of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.[2]
Preston was Principal Solicitor at the NSW Environmental Defender's Office from March 1985, overseeing its official opening in May that year.[3]
He received in 2010 an award from the Asian Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network (AECEN) for his environmental work.[4]
References
- ^ a b http://www.lec.justice.nsw.gov.au/lec/judicial_officers.html, NSW government website, "Judicial officers and decision makers", accessed 5 November 2014.
- ^ The Hon Brian Preston Chief Judge, Land and Environment Court.
- ^ Robinson, David (1996) "The Environmental Defender's Office NSW, 1985-1995" in Environmental and Planning Law Journal [June 1996] - "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Trevor Daya-Winterbottom, Profiling Justice Brian Preston (Environmental Law Annual Colloquium (University of Waikato, New Zealand).
  | This Australian law-related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |