Margaret Cunneen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Margaret Cunneen
Occupation	Barrister
Date Of Birth	Jan 15, 1959(1959-01-15)
Age	65
Birthplace	Darlinghurst
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Capricorn

Margaret Cunneen Biography

Margaret Cunneen is one of the most popular and richest Barrister who was born on January 15, 1959 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia. Margaret Mary Cunneen, SC, a barrister, prosecutor, and commissioner of a government investigation from Australia was born 15 January 1959 in Sydney.

Cunneen taught child abuse and neglect at the Faculty of Social Work, University of New South Wales, from 1995 to 2009.

In April 2007 The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Cunneen had been removed as prosecutor in the trial of an alleged gang rapist after the court found there would be a perception of unfairness if she acted in the case. Cunneen had referred to the case, although without naming it and speaking only in reference to the deleterious effects on the victim arising from the seven–year delay in concluding it, during the Sir Ninian Stephen Lecture in 2005 at Newcastle University. Cunneen’s lecture was described by Justice David Levine as “the most articulate commentary on the criminal justice system, in my opinion”. The decision to remove her was criticised by the New South Wales Bar Association, however it was not appealed by the Director of Public Prosecutions. John Marsden wrote to the Legal Services Commissioner, calling Cunneen “a disgrace to our profession”. His complaint was dismissed.

In October 2007 Cunneen was appointed as Senior Counsel and her peers at the Bar elected her as one of 21 members of the Bar Council of New South Wales. She is a Bar Councillor, having received the second highest number of votes in the 2014 Bar Council elections.

Cunneen, a Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor at the NSW Office of Director of Public Prosecutions, has been a Crown Prosecutor for a number of years. Cunneen rose to prominence after she was charged with a number of high-profile pedophile cases and also a number of notable gang rape or murder trials.

Margaret Cunneen Net Worth

Margaret Cunneen is one of the richest Barrister from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Margaret Cunneen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1977, she joined the Attorney General’s Department and worked in the Ministerial Office. From 1981 to 1986 she was an industrial officer at the Public Service Board of NSW. In 1986 she was transferred to the New South Wales Office of Director of Public Prosecutions, where Megan Latham was her immediate manager. She began part-time study in 1977 and graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science from the NSW Institute of Technology. In 1989, she received a Master of Laws degree from the University of Sydney. She was made a New South Wales Supreme Court legal practitioner in 1982. The University of Technology awarded her the Law Alumni Award in 2014.

Cunneen lives in Sydney’s North Shore. Cunneen is the mother of three sons who were born in 1988 and 1990, respectively, and 1992. She is married to Gregory Wyllie (9th Dan), who runs Wyllie Martial Arts, a highly successful taekwondo school.

In 2004 it was reported that Cunneen’s advice to Nicholas Cowdery, the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, concerning sexual abuse allegations against an Australian swimming coach, Scott Volkers, was leaked. It was reported that Cunneen’s advice stated that “the inevitable conclusion from the brief as a whole is that Scott Volkers was a thoroughly disreputable man, given to inappropriate touching and comments towards young swimmers in his charge.” But it warned that the situation was “complicated by the fondness of many for him.” Her final assessment of the matter was that “prosecution of these old matters being so relatively minor would erode public confidence in the course of the criminal justice system.” In July 2014 Cunneen made a statement to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

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Who is Margaret Cunneen Dating?

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On 15 April 2015 the High Court found that ICAC had exceeded its authority based on its misinterpretation of “corrupt conduct” in the ICAC Act. The Court ruled that Cunneen’s alleged conduct, had it occurred, might have affected an official’s choice of action, but would not have affected the official’s probity in making that choice. The High Court also held that the alleged conduct could not have amounted to corruption. The Court accepted that the alleged conduct of Cunneen, had it occurred, would have been in a private and not an official capacity, and also found that the alleged conduct could not have amounted to corruption. ICAC was ordered to pay costs.

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