{{Short description|Australian judge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Sir Reginald Allfree Smithers''', QC (born 1903 in Echuca, Victoria<ref name="Victorian Bar - Sir Reginald Alfree Smithers QC">{{cite web |title=Sir Reginald Alfree Smithers QC |url=https://www.vicbar.com.au/news-events/photo-galleries/victorian-bar-portrait-collection?page=1 |website=Victorian Bar |access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref> – died January 1994)<ref name="The Canberra Times - 5 February 1994 - A Good Judge of Character">{{cite news |last1=Jack Waterford |title=A Good Judge of Character |access-date=11 January 2022 |work=The Canberra Times via Trove |date=5 February 1994|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134299662?searchTerm=Reginald%20Smithers |author1-link=Jack Waterford }}</ref> was an Australian lawyer and judge.<ref name="Supreme Court of the Northern Territory -The Honourable Sir Reginald Alfree Smithers">{{cite web |title=Supreme Court of the Northern Territory -The Honourable Sir Reginald Alfree Smithers |url=https://supremecourt.nt.gov.au/about/judges/former-judges/acting-judge/sir-reginald-alfree-smithers |website=Supreme Court of the Northern Territory}}</ref> Smithers educated at Melbourne Grammar School. Admitted to the Bar in 1929, he was appointed a King's Counsel in 1951.<ref>{{cite news|date=12 December 1951|title=Two New K.C.'s Appointed to Victorian Bar|page=2|newspaper=The Age|issue=30,147|location=Victoria, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205657835|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=12 January 2022}}</ref> was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1 February 1977 to 30 September 1986.<ref name="Federal Court of Australia - Former Judges of the Court - Sir Reginald Allfree SMITHERS QC">{{cite web |title=Federal Court of Australia - Former Judges of the Court |url=https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/about/judges/former-judges |website=Federal Court of Australia |access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref> Smithers was the Chancellor of La Trobe University from 1972 to 1980.<ref name="La Trobe University - Our history">{{cite web |title=La Trobe University - Our history |url=https://www.latrobe.edu.au/about/at-a-glance/history |website=La Trobe University |access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref> He was knighted in the 1980 New Year Honours for service to law.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mr Reginald Allfree Smithers|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1083147|access-date=2022-01-11|website=It's an Honour}}</ref>
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