Federal Court of Australia

Qualifications

BA
LLB
Senior Counsel (NSW)
Queen's Counsel (WA)

Key competition cases

ACCC v NSW Ports (2023)

ACCC v Liquorland

Baxter Healthcare

ACCC v ANZ (2015)

Flight Centre v ACCC (2015)

External links

Federal Court

Wikipedia entry

Relevant qualifications

• 1974 - Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney

• 1980 - Bachelor of Laws, University of Sydney (won the university medal in law)

• 1994 - appointed Senior Counsel in New South Wales

• 1998 - appointed Queen’s Counsel in Western Australia

Honours

Officer of the Order of Australia (26 January 2013)
For distinguished service to the judiciary and the law, as a judge, through reforms to equity and access, and through contributions to the administration of maritime law and legal education.

Relevant work history

• 2013- Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia (1 March 2013 - 6 April 2023)

• 2008-2013 - President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (appointed 2 June 2008)

• 2001-2008 - Judge of the Federal Court (from 7 May 2001 to 1 June 2008)

• 1981-2001 - at the Bar (appointed Senior Counsel in NSW in 1994 and Queen's Counsel in WA in 1998)

Academic appointments

Adjunct Professor
University of Sydney (from 1981 has variously taught property, equity, bankruptcy, insolvency,
corporate finance and maritime law)

Relevant judgments

Although specialising in Admiralty Law, Justice Allsop has delivered judgments in a number of significant competition law cases. These include:

• ACCC v Liquorland (Australia) Pty Ltd [2006] FCA 826 (30 June 2006)

  Exclusionary provisions, anti-competitive agreements

• ACCC v Baxter Healthcare [2005] FCA 581 (16 May 2005) (first instance)
  Exclusive Dealing and misuse of market power

• Flight Centre Limited v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [2015] FCAFC 104 (Appeal)
  Cartels and agency arrangements; definition of market, competitors

• ACCC v ANZ Ltd [2015] FCAFC 10 (Appeal)
  Cartels and agency arrangements; definition of market, competitors

Relevant speeches and publications

• Allsop, Justice James "Australia - a vital commercial hub in the Asia Pacific region: the importance of and challenges for Australian commercial courts and arbitral institutions" (FCA) [2015] FedJSchol 3 (AustLII)

Other references

Transcript, Ceremonial Sitting of the Full Court For the swearing in and welcome of the Honourable Chief Justice Allsop AO (4 March 2013)

Joe Kelly, ''Brilliant' Allsop to go federal' (The Australian, 21 November 2012)