Brigitte Markovic
Brigitte Sandra Markovic is an Australian judge. She has been a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, based in Sydney, since 2015.Markovic was born in Sydney, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She was educated at Ascham School and the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce in 1987. She was a solicitor at Clayton Utz from 1988 until her appointment to the court in 2015.
Quotes about Brigitte Markovic
[edit]- In 2010, her Honour became a managing partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group of Clayton Utz. Mr Clark noted that in this role, her Honour:
- Her Honour was a partner in Clayton Utz, having joined the f irm 27 years ago as a summer clerk. At the age of 32, her Honour became one of the youngest partners in the firm. Her Honour quickly developed a busy practice in Corporations Law matters.
- One of the barristers her Honour worked with as a solicitor at Clayton Utz was Michael Slattery QC, now Justice Slattery of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Mr Stuart Clark, president-elect of the Law Council of Australia, observed that a note from her Honour’s personnel file at Clayton Utz records Justice Slattery as describing her Honour as ‘brilliant’ and ‘always in control’.
- Her Honour has a rich life outside of the law, enjoying theatre, classical music and the visual arts.
- Mr Moses also acknowledged her Honour’s involvement on the bar’s equitable briefing working party, which recently completed its report reviewing the application in NSW of the Law Council of Australia’s equitable briefing policy.
- New South Wales Bar Association. APPOINTMENTS Retrieved 3 November 2017.
