Ronald Sackville

Ronald Sackville is a former acting judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia , and the former Chair of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.

Education Sackville is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (where he was editor of the Melbourne University Law Review) and Yale University. That case involved a complaint by Australia's Channel Seven television network that it was forced to shut down its pay television sports channels business due to anti-competitive conduct by a range of other Australian media companies including News, PBL and Telstra between 1999 and 2001. Sackville found that no such anti-competitive conduct existed. This case has become an example for the University of New South Wales.

From 4 April 2019 until 29 September 2023, Justice Sackville was the Chair of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.

Honours In the Australia Day Honours of 2009, he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia for "service to the administration of the Australian judicial system, to the reform of federal and state law, and to legal education." He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1991, and was awarded a Doctor of Laws (LLD) (Honoris Causa) by the University of NSW in 2002.