Alfred Martin Daubney (born 18 January 1961) was appointed as a

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of the

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in 2007. He is an honorary fellow of the

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, a member of the Senate of the

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, and is President of the King’s College council at the University of Queensland. In July 2021 he was appointed Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University and will take up the position in January 2022.

Education

Daubney attended

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, a co-educational Catholic school located in Toowoomba. He graduated from the

with a

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and

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Legal career

After completing articles of clerkship Daubney was admitted as a

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in April 1987, becoming a

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in 1998. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2000. In addition to his practice in Queensland, he also practiced as a barrister in the

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from 1994-2007. While a barrister, Daubney was involved in the administration and regulation of the profession, first as Honorary Treasurer of the

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of Queensland from 1998-2005. In 2005 he held the position of Vice-President of the Queensland Bar Association, to be appointed President in 2006. Daubney was also a Director of the Law Council of Australia and a member of the Council of the Australian Bar Association from 2006-2007.P Moran, M Herd, L Sullivan ed., ''Who's Who in Australia 2014'' (2014) Crown Content Pty Ltd: Melbourne, Australia While holding these positions within the Bar Association, he was an active member of the Management Committee of the Queensland Bar Practice Course from 2000-2007 and of the Legal Practitioners Admission Board, 2004-2007. In 2004-2005, Daubney chaired a Commission of Inquiry into the Queensland Thoroughbred Racing Industry.

Judicial career

Daubney was sworn in as a Judge of the Supreme Court in the Trial Division on 18 July 2007. He has been involved in many cases of note, including some very serious cases in the criminal sphere and some important commercial matters.

Extra judicial positions

Daubney has been President of the King's College Council at the

since 2009 and has been a member of the Senate of the University of Queensland since 2010. Justice Daubney AM also served from 2007-2009 as the Chair of the Law School Advisory Committee for the

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. In 2007 he was made an honorary fellow of the

. He was a Director of the

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Foundation from 2003-2011. As a member of the University of Queensland's Senate, he was subject to an unlawful investigation by the

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following the university's admission scandal involving the admission of the daughter of then Vice Chancellor Paul Greenfield. Daubney challenged the legality of the investigation to the commission's parliamentary committee as the CMC's role does not involve the investigation of judicial officers in such a situation, even though he was performing in a non-judicial role. Daubney has also been a member of the Queensland Law Society's Commercial Litigation Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee since 2007. He was a national Vice-President and Queensland Chair of the Australian Association of the

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from 2008 to 2014, and has been a member of the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane Finance Council since 2011. In June 2018, Daubney was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the law, and to the judiciary, to education and to the community.

Publications

* M Daubney, G Mullins, G O'Grady, M Rackemann, ''Time Limits in Queensland'' (Queensland Law Society, 1997) * R Byers, M Daubney, J Green, ''The Company Secretaries Handbook'' (Butterworths, 1990)

References

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