David Anthony Hunt (15 February 1935 – 19 July 2019) was an Australian

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who served on the

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, where he was the Chief Judge at Common Law, and the

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. Subsequent to his retirement in 1998, Justice Hunt joined the

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to tr ...

(where he signed the warrant for the arrest of

Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Милошевић, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugos ...

) and the

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR; ; ) was an international court, international ''ad-hoc'' court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in United Nations Security Council Resolution 955, Resolutio ...

Gabrielle Louise McIntyre Gabrielle Louise McIntyre (Australian) is an international legal practitioner, jurist, and served as the Chairperson of the Seychelles' Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission. She previously served as the ''Chef de Cabinet'' and Pri ...

served as his legal adviser at the ICTY. He studied arts and law at the

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

. Justice Hunt was appointed an

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in the

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for "service to the judiciary, to the law and to the community particularly in the areas of criminal law, the law of defamation, and international law in defence of human rights". Justice Hunt is remembered as the judge who sentenced serial killer

Ivan Milat Ivan Robert Marko Milat (27 December 1944 – 27 October 2019), commonly referred to in media as the Backpacker Murderer, was an Australian serial killer who abducted, assaulted, robbed and murdered two men and five women in New South Wales bet ...

. Justice Hunt was the father of political satirist Simon Hunt, sometimes known as

Pauline Pantsdown Simon Hunt, sometimes known as Pauline Pantsdown (born c. 1962), is an Australian drag queen for Australian Senate candidate who parodied Pauline Hanson, a controversial member of federal parliament, in 1997 and 2016. His birth name was Simon Hun ...

.Hanson stung by the peril of Pauline
by Robert Milliken, at

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; published 3 October 1998. Retrieved 24 April 2011

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Officers of the Order of Australia Lawyers from Sydney 1935 births 2019 deaths Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales University of Queensland alumni Australian King's Counsel International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia judges International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda judges Australian judges of United Nations courts and tribunals {{Australia-law-bio-stub