Jeff Shaw (politician)
Australian politician (1949-2010)
Jeffrey William Shaw, QC (10 October 1949 – 11 May 2010) was an Australian lawyer, judge and Labor politician. A barrister who specialised in industrial law, he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1990 to 2000 and served as Attorney General and Minister for Industrial Relations in the government of Bob Carr from 1995 to 2000.
Shaw was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2003 but resigned the following year following a drink-driving incident. He returned to legal practice and teaching, and died in 2010.
Early life and education
Shaw was educated at Boronia Park and Chatswood public schools, and Hunters Hill High School where he was a Sergeant in the school Cadet Corps. He graduated in Arts and Law at the University of Sydney in 1973, and also spent a period studying at Templeton College, Oxford.
He married Elizabeth Bryant on 21 December 1974 and they had two sons.
Legal career
Shaw was admitted as a solicitor of the New South Wales Supreme Court in 1975 and as a barrister of that same court the following year. On 12 November 1986, Shaw was appointed Queen's Counsel. He specialised in industrial law.
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