The Hon. John Middleton AM KC

Senior Consultant, Advisory Board

The Honourable John Middleton AM KC is a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Australian Competition Tribunal, presidential member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Part-time Commissioner to the Australian Law Reform Commission.

He is now a Senior Advisor to the legal firm DLA Piper Australia.

He graduated from the University of Melbourne as Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and from the University of Oxford as Bachelor of Civil Law (First Class Honours).  He was the Winter Williams Scholar (University of Oxford (1976)).

After serving as Associate to Sir Ninian Stephen, then Justice of the High Court of Australia, he was called to the Bar and was subsequently appointed one of Her Majesty’s Counsel for the State of Victoria, later becoming Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council.

His other activities include being a former Council Member of the University of Melbourne and former member of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Advisory Board and Judicial Liaison Committee, and is currently a member of The American Law Institute, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand, Patron of the Oxford University Society in Victoria Inc. and an Honorary (Principal Fellow) of the University of Melbourne within Law.

He was awarded the Centenary Medal for services as a former Chairman of the Bar Council, to the community and to education.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (General Division) for significant service to the judiciary and to the law, and to professional associations.