Expert resume of The Hon. Peter Michael Jacobson

Date of birth:

25 January 1945

Educational and

Professional qualifications:  

BA University of Sydney 1965

LLB (Hons) University of Sydney 1968

LLM University of Pennsylvania 1971

Judicial appointments: 

Judge, Federal Court of Australia

17/6/02 – 24/1/15

Judge, Supreme Court of Norfolk Island

July 07 – 24/1/15

Chief Justice of Norfolk Island

12/12/08 – 24/1/15

Judicial experience: 

Sat on cases at first instance and on appeals, principally in the fields of commercial and company law, insolvency and competition law.   

Professional and academic experience: 

March 1968 admitted as solicitor of Supreme Court of New South Wales

1971 – 1972 Instructor in Law, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

1972 – 1976 Assistant Professor (Associate Professor from 1975) McGill University Law School, Montreal, Canada

1976 – 1979 employed solicitor, Allen Allen & Hemsley, Sydney

1979 – 2002 Barrister, Selborne Chambers, Sydney

1992 appointed Queen’s Counsel

Former Board Memberships: 

1993 – 2000 Counsel’s Chambers Limited

(Chairman 1997 – 2000)

1991 – 1999 Barristers’ Superannuation Fund

(Chairman 1996 – 1999)

Current areas of practice

Currently engaged in mediation of commercial disputes and other forms of alternative dispute resolutions.