John McKechnie

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honorific-prefix = The Hon. Justice
name = John Roderick McKechnie
honorific-suffix = QC


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office =Justice, Supreme Court of Western Australia
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term_start2 =December 1991
term_end2 =1 March 1999
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birth_date = 1 June, 1950
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John Roderick McKechnie QC (1 November 1950-) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia, and previously served as the State's first Director of Public Prosecutions.

He attended Scotch College from 1963 until 1967, then graduated in law from the University of Western Australia in 1972. He then took articles with Jackson McDonald & Co, before joining the Crown Law Department. He became a Queens Counsel in 1989, and then in December 1991 was appointed by the Government of Western Australia as the state's first Director of Public Prosecutions. During his eight-year term in this role, the Department processed on average 2,500 prosecutions per year

On 2 March 1999, [cite web|url=http://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/content/news/media/1999/media02.aspx|title=New Judge Sworn In (media release)|author=Supreme Court of Western Australia|date=25 February 1999|accessdate=2007-05-10] he was sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

References

Further reading

*cite journal|last=Milner|first=Greg|url=http://www.lawreview.law.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/36433/McKechnie_portrait.pdf|title=Judges and Magistrates of Western Australia - John McKechnie|year= 2003|month= February|journal= UWA Law Review |volume= 31 |issue=1|pages= 118–120 |location = Nedlands, WA |id=ISSN 0042-0328 |accessdate= 2007-05-10

ee also

* Judiciary of Australia