Federal Court of Australia

Qualifications

BA
LLB

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Federal Court

Qualifications

• BA University of Queensland

• LLB University of Queensland

• Called to the NSW Bar in 1980

• Appointed Senior Counsel in 1993

Relevant work history

• Federal Court of Australia (2006-)

• Additional Judge, Supreme Court of the ACT

• Judge, Supreme Court of Norfolk Islands

• Member, Judicial Commission of NSW (2004-2005)

Other positions held

• National convening judge and NSW registry convening judge for Admiralty and Maritime Panel

• Member, Comite Maritime International, International Working Group on Offshore Activities

• Chairman, Consultative Council for Australian Law Reporting

• Vice-President, Judicial Conference of Australia

• Member, Board of Management, Council of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration

• Member, National Judicial Orientation Program Steering Committee

Relevant judgments

Forthcoming

Publications (select)

Steven Rares, ‘Providing Justice in a Viral World: where to from here?’ (AIJA online conference series, opening remarks, 26 August 2020)

Steven Rares, ‘Why Magna Carta Still Matters’ (Judicial Conference of Australia Colloguium, Adelaide, 9 October 2015)

Steven Rares, ‘Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions - Should There be a 21st Century Rethink?’ (Administrative Law Master-class, seminar for CLE, UNSW, 15 October 2014)

Steven Rares, 'Competition, Fairness and the Courts' (Paper presented at the Competition Law Conference, 24 May 2014)

• Also published as: Rares, Justice Steven, "Competition, fairness and the courts" (FCA) [2014] FedJSchol 10
  and Justice S Rares, 'Competition, Fiarness and the Courts' (2014) 39 Australian Bar Review 79

Steven Rares, 'Using the "hot tub" - how concurrent expert evidence aids understanding Issues' (12 October 2013)
Speech updated and published in Intellectual Property Forum (Issue 95, December 2013) (alternative PDF source) (alternative online source; November 2013)

Steven Rares, 'Introductory Remarks for the 2012 Competition Law Conference' (Competition Law Conference, 5 May 2012) (Word version)