Who is Justice Jayne Jagot?
Jayne Margaret Jagot is a judge from Australia. She has been a Federal Court of Australia judge since September 3, 2008. She previously served as a judge on New South Wales’ Land and Environment Court. She will replace retiring justice Patrick Keane on the High Court of Australia in mid-October 2022.
Jagot was born in England and moved with her family to Australia in 1968. Jagot attended Baulkham Hills High School before graduating with honors from Macquarie University in 1987. In 1991, she graduated from the University of Sydney with first-class honors in law. She received the Butterworths Prize for Most Proficient in First Year, the Pitt Cobbett Prize for Administrative Law, the Sir Alexander Beattie Prize in Company Law, the Margaret Ethel Peden Prize in Real Property, the Minter Ellison Prize in Intellectual Property, and the Nancy Gordon Smith Prize for Honours while studying at the University of Sydney.
From 1992 to 2002, Jagot worked as a solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons), specializing in planning and environmental law. [4] In 1997, she was promoted to partner. [5] After being admitted to the bar in 2002, she established a successful practice as a barrister.
In 2006, Jagot was appointed to the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. She also served as an acting judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales’ Equity Division for a time.
Justice Jayne Jagot husband, Peter McClellan
Peter David McClellan AM KC is a retired New South Wales Court of Appeal judge who served from February 2013 to February 2018. From January 2013 to December 2017, McClellan served as the Chief Royal Commissioner of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. He previously served as the Supreme Court’s Chief Judge in Common Law, a position he was appointed to in 2005.
McClellan grew up on Sydney’s Upper North Shore and attended Normanhurst Boys High School for his secondary education. Fellow Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison, who attended the school as well, stated that “that school was instrumental in assisting your Honour to overcome adolescent difficulties you had with low esteem, lack of confidence, and self doubt.” McClellan later attended the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1971 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1974.
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