Shane Marshall

Shane Marshall

Shane Raymond Marshall AM is a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia and a current Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and a Deputy Chairperson of the Victorian Racing Tribunal. Justice Marshall graduated with degrees in Economics (1977) and Law (Hons)(1979) at Monash University. After graduating, he practised as an articled law clerk and solicitor, from February 1979 to August 1981, at Maurice Blackburn and Co., in its industrial law section, before being admitted to the Victorian Bar in November 1981, where he predominantly practised in industrial and employment law He attended St.Bede's College Mentone where he was Dux of Humanities in 1973. In 2008 he was inducted into the St.Bede's Hall of Fame. Justice Marshall was appointed as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia on 17 July 1995, and concurrently as a judge of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia (later merged into the Federal Court). He retired on 21 November 2015. Between 2004 and 2013, he was also an additional judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.In that Court he presided over judge alone trials and jury trials and civil actions as well as sitting on full court appeals in civil and criminal matters. In 2003, Justice Marshall was recognised with a Centenary Medal for services to industrial relations. From 2005 to 2011 he was an Associate member of the Judicial System Monitoring Program in East Timor and wrote several articles on the justice system in East Timor. Between 2002 and 2011 his work in East Timor included giving seminars on labor law to district court judges, participating in a program designed to connect the official justice system to systems of community justice in villages and organising the law and justice section of development conferences

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