The Hon. Justice John Eric MIDDLETON Judge, Federal Court of Australia: 31.7.2006
Location: Melbourne
Other Commissions/Appointments:
Australian Competition Tribunal - Part-time Deputy President
John Eric Middleton was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia effective from 31 July 2006.
He was appointed a Deputy President to the Australian Competition Tribunal effective from 16 February 2009.
He graduated from the University of Melbourne as Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and from the University of Oxford as Bachelor of Civil Law (Honours). He was admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1976, and after serving as Associate to Sir Ninian Stephen, then Justice of the High Court of Australia, was called to the Bar in 1979.
He was appointed one of Her Majesty’s Counsel for the State of Victoria in 1991 and subsequently became Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council.
