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Andrew Rogers

1933 – 2024

Australian judge

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Lived 1933 – 2024 (aged 90). Andrew Rogers was a barrister.

Andrew John Rogers (30 April 1933 – 4 February 2024) was an Australian corporate and legal advisor, who was a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1979 to 1993.

Rogers was educated at the Schweizerische Alpine Mittelschule in Davos, Switzerland, and Cranbrook School, Sydney. He graduated from Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), and was admitted to the bar in New South Wales in 1956. In 1973, he was made Queen's Counsel. In 1979, he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court, and from 1987 to 1992 was the chief judge of the court's commercial division.

In the 1980s, Rogers took the unusual step of enforcing how barristers ran commercial cause cases in the Supreme Court. Fellow Supreme Court judge George Palmer, a commercial barrister at the time, recalled the changes as "shocking", "utterly brutal", and the most dramatic change to court procedure in 150 years.

Since his retirement from the bench in 1993, he worked as a legal consultant for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the law firm Clayton Utz

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Sydney Law School
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Officer of the Order of Australia
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Who was Andrew Rogers?

Australian judge

When was Andrew Rogers born?

Andrew Rogers was born on 30 April 1933.

When did Andrew Rogers die?

Andrew Rogers died on 4 February 2024.

What was Andrew Rogers's occupation?

Andrew Rogers was a barrister.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Andrew Rogers

· Wikidata: Q19538866

· DBpedia: Andrew Rogers (judge)

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