Michael Bryan Joshua Lee (born 1965) is an Australian jurist and former barrister who has served as a judge of the

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since 27 March 2017, in the Sydney Registry of the Court. He is a National Coordinating Judge in both the Commercial and Corporations National Practice Area and the Defamation sub-area in the Other Federal Jurisdiction National Practice Area.

Education

Lee was born in

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in 1965 but was raised in

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where he attended Marist Brothers High School,

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. Lee graduated in law from the University of Sydney.

Career

Lee commenced work as a solicitor in 1989 with Corrs Chambers Westgarth. He went to the New South Wales Bar in 2002 and took silk in 2011. He was counsel for the John Marsden Australian defamation case, and the Australian political assassination case of

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. He was appointed to the Federal Court in 2017 and is also an Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. He is the section editor for the ''

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'' section on class actions and is a Fellow of the University of Melbourne.

Publications and seminars

''Varying Funding Agreements and Freedom of Contract: Some Observations'' by The Hon Justice Lee (IMF Bentham Class Actions Research Initiative with UNSW Law: ''Resolving Class Actions Effectively and Fairly''), 1 June 2017

''Certification of Class Actions: A 'Solution' in Search of a Problem?'' by The Hon Justice Lee (A paper presented to the Commercial Law Association Seminar "Class Actions – Different Perspectives"), 20 October 2017

''Case Management & Insolvency: Matching Rhetoric & Reality'', by The Hon Justice Lee (Key Note Speech at the Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners Annual Conference), 28 June 2019

''Public Confidence, Apprehended Bias, and the Modern Federal Judiciary'' (AAL/ALRC Seminar), Judicial Impartiality eNews, February 2021

''Washington Diaries of Owen Dixon: Review by Justice Lee'', Southern Highlands Newsletter #241, March 2021

References

External links

Commercial and Corporations National Practice Area

Other Federal Jurisdiction National Practice Area
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