Robert Brooking

{{Short description|Former judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Robert Brooking | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO,|QC}} | image = | office = Judge of the Court of Appeal (Vic) | term_start = 7 June 1995 | term_end = 6 March 2002 | office2 = Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria | term_start2 = 22 February 1977 | term_end2 = 6 March 2002 | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | children = }}

== Career == The Honourable '''Robert Brooking''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO,|QC}} was a judge of the Court of Appeal of Victoria from 1995, having been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1977.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/home/about+the+court/our+judiciary/past+judges+and+associate+judges/ |title=Past judges and associate judges |publisher=Supreme Court of Victoria |accessdate=23 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226225443/http://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/home/about+the+court/our+judiciary/past+judges+and+associate+judges/ |archivedate=26 February 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/26/1038274306196.html |title=Laughing all the way to the County Court |work=The Age |author=Jackson, Andra |date=27 November 2002 |accessdate=23 February 2015}}</ref> He was also an acting judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory for 6 months in 2000–2001.<ref name="NT Sup Ct">{{cite web |title=The Honourable Robert Brooking |url=http://www.supremecourt.nt.gov.au/about/judges/former/brooking.htm |website=Supreme Court of the Northern Territory |accessdate=2 March 2019}}</ref>

Brooking was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1954 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1969.<ref name="NT Sup Ct"/>

Brooking retired in 2002 after serving as a judge for 25 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Honourable Professor Robert Brooking QC |url=https://www.vicbar.com.au/sites/default/files/Documents/VBN_121_2002_Winter_0.pdf}} (2002, Winter) 121 Victorian Bar News 16.</ref>

In 2003 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia "For service to the judiciary, particularly through the Victorian Court of Appeal, to the law in the areas of tenancy, building law and arbitration, and to the community".<ref>{{cite web |title=The Honourable Justice Robert BROOKING |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1043224 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility |accessdate=2 March 2019}}</ref>

==Publications== *{{cite web |title=McRae and Anor v Commonwealth Disposals Commission and Ors |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ResJud/1954/2.pdf}} (1954) 6 Res Judicate 3. *{{cite web |title=Causer v Browne |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ResJud/1954/8.pdf}} (1954) 6 Res Judicate 17. *{{cite web |title=Marcus Clarke & Co Ltd v The Commonwealth |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ResJud/1954/34.pdf}} (1954) 6 Res Judicate 247. *{{cite web |title=Re Lilley |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ResJud/1954/59.pdf}} (1954) 6 Res Judicate 395. *{{cite book |title=Building Contracts: The Law and Practice Relating to Building and Engineering Agreements |year=1974 |publisher=Butterworths |isbn=9780409434590}} *{{cite book |title=Landlord and Tenant |year=1959 |publisher=Butterworths}} *{{cite web |title=Luntz: Assessment of Damages For Personal Injury And Death |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/1974/33.pdf}} (1974) 9(4) Melbourne University Law Review 795. *{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUConstrLawNlr/2002/54.pdf |title=Reflections and Reminiscences of a Building Judge}} (2002) 85 Australian Construction Law Newsletter 5.

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