Duncan Kerr
- January 10, 2024
- Judge
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Duncan Kerr Biography
| Name | Duncan Kerr |
| Birthday | Feb 26 |
| Birth Year | 1952 |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Duncan Kerr is one of the most popular and richest Judge who was born on February 26, 1952 in Australia. Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr (born 26 February 1952) is a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and served as President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from 2012 to 2017.
Kerr served in the Australian House of Representatives as Member for Denison from 11 July 1987 to 19 July 2010. Prior to entering politics, Kerr acted as Crown Counsel in the Tasmanian Solicitor-General’s Department, as lecturer in constitutional law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Papua New Guinea, and as Principal Solicitor for the [[Aboriginal Legal Service of New South Wales|NSW Aboriginal Legal Service]].
Kerr served as Minister for Justice from 1993 to 1996, and briefly also as Attorney-General in 1993. Prime Minister Paul Keating’s original choice for Attorney-General in 1993 had been Michael Lavarch, but Lavarch’s re-election was delayed by the death of an opposing candidate for the seat of Dickson; Kerr held the portfolio in the interim until Lavarch won the resulting supplementary election. Kerr served as Attorney-General for 26 days.
Kerr was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry from 1996 to 2001. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs in the Rudd Ministry in 2007.
Kerr is the author of Annotated Constitution of Papua New Guinea (1985), Essays on the Constitution (1985), Reinventing Socialism (1992) and Elect the Ambassador; Building Democracy in a Globalised World (2001).
Duncan Kerr Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Judge |
| House | Living in own house. |
Duncan Kerr is one of the richest judge from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Duncan Kerr 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Kerr was leading counsel in the High Court case Plaintiff S157 v The Commonwealth, which concerned a privative clause in the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) and the availability of judicial review under section 75 of the Constitution of Australia. In 2010, Michael Kirby described the decision as “one of the most important in recent years for its affirmation of the centrality in [Australian] constitutional law of the rule of law.”
Kerr was the Labor candidate in the Division of Braddon in the 1977 Australian federal election, losing to future Premier of Tasmania Ray Groom. In the Australian federal election in 1987, Kerr defeated the sitting Liberal member, Michael Hodgman QC, for the Hobart-based seat of Denison to become the first Labor member elected from Tasmania since the defeat of the Whitlam Government in 1975.
Kerr was previously a politician, as the Labor member for Denison in the Australian House of Representatives, serving between 1987 and 2010. He was Minister for Justice between 1993 and 1996, and in 1993 briefly also Attorney- General of Australia.
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Who is Duncan Kerr Dating?
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On 12 April 2012 he was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia, taking his seat on the bench on 10 May 2012. In 2015 with the consent of the Australian Government he was appointed by the Independent State of Papua New Guinea as its nominee as an arbitrator in a proceeding in the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Concurrently with his judicial duties, from 2012 to 2017 he served as President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was Chair of the Council of Australasian Tribunals (COAT) from 2014 to 2017. He is one of six former federal politicians to have served on the Federal Court, along with Robert Ellicott, Nigel Bowen, Tony Whitlam, Merv Everett and John Reeves.
Facts & Trivia
Dusty Ranked on the list of most popular Judge. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Duncan Kerr celebrates birthday on February 26 of every year.
Who is Duncan Kerr?
Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr (born 26 February 1952) is a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and served as President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from 2012 to 2017. Kerr was previously a politician, as the Labor member for Denison in the Australian House of Representatives, serving between 1987 and 2010.
Who was Duncan in Outlander?
British actor Murray McArthur portrays Duncan Kerr in the Outlander television series.
What did Duncan tell Jamie?
Duncan tells Jamie that he’d promised to provide money for guns to the British for the war , however the gold has gone missing.
Where is the gold in Outlander?
As The Scotsman reported, folklore has it that the French sent gold in support of Charles Stuart in 1746. But the Jacobite rebellion was lost that same year at the Battle of Culloden and the French gold is said to have been secretly buried in the Scottish Highlands around Loch Arkaig.
How are Claire and Geillis related?
Geillis and Claire are related through Master Raymond. And Dougal is Jamie’s maternal uncle, making Buck Jamie’s cousin. Again, Roger is a direct descendant of Buck. And Jemmy is a descendant of all of them!