Julia Lonergan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Julia Lonergan

Australian judge

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1961

Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: solicitor, judge, barrister

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Julia Lonergan

  • Julia Lily Ann Lonergan (born 14 January 1961) is an Australian judge.
  • She has been a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales since March 2017.Lonergan was born in Sydney and educated at St Patrick's Parramatta and Loreto Kirribilli.
  • She then studied a Bachelor of Arts at Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney before being admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1983.
  • She began working at her parents' firm, T P and J Lonergan in Parramatta.
  • She then worked for GIO, specialising in insurance litigation, later moving to Suncorp Metway.Lonergan was admitted as a barrister in 1997, and developed a practice in medical negligence, personal injury and professional negligence, becoming known as an expert in medical negligence.
  • She appeared as a junior barrister for the plaintiff in Simpson v Diamond, which resulted in the highest medical negligence verdict in New South Wales history, leading to changes in the legislation relating to civil liability.
  • Lonergan attained senior counsel status in 2012.
  • From 2013 to 2014, she was counsel assisting a Special Commission of Inquiry into child sex abuse allegations in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.
  • She was elected to the Council of the NSW Bar Association for 2016 in a result that helped block a conservative effort to oust the incumbent members.
  • Lonergan has served on the equal opportunity committees of both the Law Council of Australia and the New South Wales Bar Association.Lonergan was appointed to the Supreme Court by Attorney-General Mark Speakman with effect from 21 March 2017, filling the vacancy caused by the elevation of Justice Richard White to the Court of Appeal.

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