Judy Benson

Profile summary
Barrister-at-law, Victorian Bar.

Areas of current practice
Trade practices; intellectual property; general commercial; contract including sport contracts; professional negligence; personal injuries (TAC); discrimination and equal opportunity; child protection.

Previous teaching experience
Sydney University, 1976-8, in Latin and Ancient History (Arts Faculty)

RMIT, 1997-2000, in trade practices and intellectual property (Faculty of Business and Law)

Previous experience
Book publishing in Sydney and Melbourne from 1977 to 1996 initially as editor then commissioning editor/publisher and finally as chief executive and publisher with the following firms: Butterworths; Australian Publishers Association; University of NSW Press; Allen & Unwin; Pitman Publishing; Oxford University Press; RMIT Press. In 1996 awarded international prize (Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton) in New York for publishing Best Business Book of the Year for a tourism management title.

Leo Cussen Institute Advocacy Prize 1997; Price Waterhouse Prize for Legal Process and Method, Melbourne University, 1989.

Recent Publications
‘ Current law in child protection’ (Paper delivered in Ballarat and Traralgon, 2001); numerous book reviews in Australian Business Law Review and Bar News

Qualifications
BA (Hons) Sydney University 1976; LLB (Hons) Melbourne University 1996: AIMM

Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 5 November 1997. Signed Bar Roll 28 May 1998.

Email
judy.benson@agsm.edu.au