| 词条 | Alastair Nicholson |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Alastair Nicholson | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AO|RFD|QC}} | image = | alt = | caption = | order = 2nd | office = Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia | term_start = 1 February 1988 | term_end = 2 July 2004 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1938|08|19}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Barrister; Jurist | alma_mater = University of Melbourne | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes | allegiance = Australia | branch = Royal Australian Air Force Reserve | unit = Legal Reserve | commands = Judge Advocate General (1987–92) | serviceyears = 1959–92 | rank = Air Vice Marshal | awards = Officer of the Order of Australia Reserve Force Decoration }} }} Alastair Bothwick Nicholson, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AO|RFD|QC}} (born 19 August 1938) was the Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia from 1988 until 2004. Early life and educationNicholson was born in 1938 in Melbourne returning with his mother Jean to Papua New Guinea, at that time an Australian territory, where his parents owned a rubber and coconut plantation. He was educated at Scotch College Melbourne where he was a boarder, and studied law at the University of Melbourne. His grandfather was Alexander Nicholson, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police from 1922 to 1925.[1] CareerHe was admitted as a legal practitioner in Victoria in 1961, and joined the Victorian Bar in 1963. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1979 and was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria between 1982 and 1988. He has long been involved in the Australian Defence Force, being Judge Advocate General between 1987 and 1992. His military involvement commenced with his appointment as a flight lieutenant in the Legal Reserve of the Royal Australian Air Force, through service in Australia and in Vietnam and at Butterworth in Malaysia as defence counsel and Judge Advocate leading ultimately to his promotion to the rank of air vice marshal. Since 2003 he has been an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, originally attached to the Department of Criminology until 2009 and subsequently to the Faculty of Law; and he has been the Chair of the National Centre Against Bullying. He was the founding patron of Children's Rights International in 2001 and has been Chair of that organisation since March 2010. He has been the patron of International Social Service Australia since 2008. References
Notes1. ^{{cite news |last1=Sara |first1=Sally |title=Mr Sara shot a policeman: The true story of a pub shooting, a police mutiny, and Melbourne's 1923 riots |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-30/george-sara-police-shooting-worst-riots-melbourne-history/7970774 |accessdate=16 December 2018 |work=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation| quote = 'Alexander Nicholson was my grandfather.' The voice belongs to Alastair Nicholson, former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, now retired |date=30 October 2016}} {{s-start}}{{s-legal}}{{s-bef|before=Elizabeth Evatt }}{{s-ttl|title=Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia | years=1988–2004}}{{s-aft|after=Diana Bryant }}{{s-end}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Nicholson, Alastair}} 12 : 1938 births|Judges of the Family Court of Australia|Australian Queen's Counsel|Queen's Counsel 1901–2000|Living people|Officers of the Order of Australia|Royal Australian Air Force air marshals|People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne|Melbourne Law School alumni|Judges of the Federal Court of Australia|20th-century Australian judges|21st-century Australian judges |
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