Stephen Hall

Stephen Hall is an Australian jurist who is a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He was appointed to the general (trial) division of the court in 2009. In 2022, he was appointed as a permanent judge of the appeal division of the Court (the Court of Appeal).

Career Stephen Hall is a graduate of the University of Western Australia earning a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1983, a Bachelor of Laws in 1984 and Bachelor of Arts in 1987.

He was admitted as a lawyer in 1985, after serving articles at the firm Lohrmann, Tindal and Guthrie. He joined the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in Perth in 1986. He worked in the Major Fraud Branch as part of a team dealing with large scale taxation fraud. He went on to work in the General Prosecutions Branch, and appeared as counsel in cases involving drugs, fraud, people-smuggling and fisheries. He was then appointed as the Senior Assistant Director in the Commercial Prosecutions Branch in 1991. In this role, he led prosecutions in a number of high profile cases, including the prosecution of Alan Bond for the Bell Cash Strip, at that time the largest fraud case in Australian history.

In 1999, Hall joined the Independent Bar of Western Australia. He initially took chambers at Wickham Chambers before later moving to Francis Burt Chambers. At the bar he specialised in white collar crime, corporate regulation, insolvency and corruption prevention.

Dr Chamari Liyanage, 2016 Jemma Lilley and Trudi Lenon, 2018 Anthony Robert Harvey, 2019 - first prisoner in Western Australia sentenced to life without the possibility of parole Claremont serial killings, 2020 Francis Wark, 2021 The Motorplex Sniper (murder of bikie boss Nick Martin), 2021

In 2022, Hall was appointed as a permanent judge of the Court of Appeal, the highest court in the hierarchy in Western Australia. He had previously served as an acting judge of appeal.