The Hon Raymond Antony Finkelstein

Judge, Federal Court of Australia (Melbourne) (retired)

Qualifications | Work History | Other positions held | Relevant judgments | Relevant speeches and publications | Submissions to inquiries

Relevant qualifications

• LLB (1970)
• Admitted to practice (1971)

Relevant work history

• 1997 - 1 July 2011: Judge, Federal Court of Australia (Melbourne) (appointed 21 July 1997)
• 1992 - Acting Solicitor General for the State of Victoria
• 1986 - appointed Queen's Counsel
• 1975 - called to the bar
• 1971-1975 - Solicitor in Melbourne and tutor at Monash University

Other positions held

• 2008 - 2011: Australian Competition Tribunal - President
• Australian Competition Tribunal - Deputy President
• Copyright Tribunal of Australia - Deputy President

Relevant judgments

• ACCC v Cabcharge [2010] FCA 1261
  Admitted conduct - s 46 contravention - penalties imposed and reasons for accepting agreed penalties
• In the matter of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd [2010] ACompT 2
• BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd v NCC [2007] FCAFC 157

As counsel

• ACCC v Mobil Oil Australia Ltd (1997) ATPR 41–568 (for The Shell Company of Australia Ltd)

Relevant speeches and publications

• Forthcoming

Submissions to inquiries

• Senate Economics Committee, Trade Practices Amendment (Infrastructure Access) Bill 2009, Submission No 3
  Bill to amends the National Access Regime in relation to: binding time limits and limited merits review; applications by certain persons that a certain service is ineligible to be a declared service; enabling the ACCC to accept access undertakings with fixed principles that will apply to subsequent undertakings; enabling the ACCC to issue an amendment notice proposing amendments to a proposed access undertaking submitted by a service provider; administrative processes of the NCC and the ACT; and consequential amendments. Bill passed with amendments in 2010

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