Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Justice Lucy McCallum is a Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Her Honour commenced her legal career in 1986 as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, specialising in commercial litigation, and then joined the Director of Public Prosecutions, firstly for the Commonwealth, and subsequently for Queensland. She was called to the Bar in 1991, where she practised at Sixth Floor Selborne Wentworth Chambers, took silk in 2005, and was appointed to the Bar Council in 2007. During her time at the Bar, she had a wide and varied practice including: administrative law, environmental law, professional negligence, defamation, trade practices, and competition law. Her Honour has long held a very strong sense of justice and belief that the law should serve the underprivileged, reflected in the extensive pro bono work she has carried out during her time in legal practice, including: working at Redfern Legal Centre, setting up programmes at law school for disadvantaged inner-city schools, representing refugees in immigration detention, and representing Greenpeace and the Environmental Defender’s Office. In 2008, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales as Justice in the Common Law Division. In 2011, she was the judge who decided the much-publicised sexual harassment case of Styles v Clayton Utz (No. 3) [2011] NSWSC 1452. Since 2014 she has been the list judge for the Defamation List, and has decided the high-profile criminal case of R v Gittany (No. 5) [2014] NSWSC 49. Her Honour was also the first judge in Australia to consider the issue of whether Twitter constituted a separate publication of defamatory material: Pedavoli v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2014] NSWSC 1674.
Justice Lucy McCallum is a Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Her Honour commenced her legal career in 1986 as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, specialising in commercial litigation, and then joined the Director of Public Prosecutions, firstly for the Commonwealth, and subsequently for Queensland. She was called to the Bar in 1991, where she practised at Sixth Floor Selborne Wentworth Chambers, took silk in 2005, and was appointed to the Bar Council in 2007. During her time at the Bar, she had a wide and varied practice including: administrative law, environmental law, professional negligence, defamation, trade practices, and competition law. Her Honour has long held a very strong sense of justice and belief that the law should serve the underprivileged, reflected in the extensive pro bono work she has carried out during her time in legal practice, including: working at Redfern Legal Centre, setting up programmes at law school for disadvantaged inner-city schools, representing refugees in immigration detention, and representing Greenpeace and the Environmental Defender’s Office. In 2008, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales as Justice in the Common Law Division. In 2011, she was the judge who decided the much-publicised sexual harassment case of Styles v Clayton Utz (No. 3) [2011] NSWSC 1452. Since 2014 she has been the list judge for the Defamation List, and has decided the high-profile criminal case of R v Gittany (No. 5) [2014] NSWSC 49. Her Honour was also the first judge in Australia to consider the issue of whether Twitter constituted a separate publication of defamatory material: Pedavoli v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2014] NSWSC 1674.