David Hunt (judge)

David Anthony Hunt AO, QC (15 February 1935 – 19 July 2019)[1][2] was an Australian judge who served on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where he was the Chief Judge at Common Law,[3] and the Judicial Commission of New South Wales. Subsequent to his retirement in 1998, Justice Hunt joined the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia[4] (where he signed the warrant for the arrest of Slobodan Milošević)[5] and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.[6] Gabrielle Louise McIntyre served as his legal adviser at the ICTY.

He studied arts and law at the University of Queensland.[7]

Justice Hunt was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2000 Australia Day Honours for "service to the judiciary, to the law and to the community particularly in the areas of criminal law, the law of defamation, and international law in defence of human rights".[8]

Justice Hunt is remembered as the judge who sentenced serial killer Ivan Milat.[2]

Justice Hunt was the father of political satirist Simon Hunt, sometimes known as Pauline Pantsdown.[9]

  1. ^ His Excellency the Hon DAVID ANTHONY HUNT AO at the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (via archive.org). Retrieved 24 April 2011
  2. ^ a b Singhal, Pallavi (20 July 2019). "Former Supreme Court judge David Hunt dies at 84". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  3. ^ From controversy to credibility: 20 years of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2011
  4. ^ Report 93 (1999) - Review of Section 316 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW): Participants, published 2 May 2001. Retrieved 24 April 2011
  5. ^ "Judge sentenced Milat and indicted Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  6. ^ Appeal chamber confirms it: Bagilishema is free Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, at the Arusha Times, by Hirondelle News Agency; published 6 July 2002. Retrieved 24 April 2011
  7. ^ Singhal, Pallavi (20 July 2019). "Former Supreme Court judge David Hunt dies at 84". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  8. ^ "His Excellency The Honourable David Anthony Hunt". honours.pmc.gov.au. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  9. ^ Hanson stung by the peril of Pauline, by Robert Milliken, at the Independent; published 3 October 1998. Retrieved 24 April 2011