Robert Ellicott

Robert James "Bob" Ellicott QC, BA, LLB (born 15 April 1927) was an Australian lawyer, politician and judge. [cite web
title =Members of the House of Representatives since 1901
publisher =Parliament of Australia
work=Parliamentary Handbook
url =http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/historical/representatives/courtnay.forrest.htm
accessdate = 2007-09-21 ]

Ellicott was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1950 and was Solicitor General from 1969 to 1973 [cite web
title =Board of Directors
publisher =Life Education Australia
work=
url =http://www.life-educationaustralia.com.au/main/doc_display.asp?PageID=25
accessdate = 2007-09-21 ] and was elected as the Liberal Party of Australia for the Division of Wentworth in 1974. He was Attorney-General in the Fraser Ministry from 1975 to 1977. Ellicott resigned as Attorney-General as a result of a dispute with Malcolm Fraser over the payment of costs in the "Sankey v Whitlam and Others" case, [cite web
title =Sankey v Whitlam [1978] HCA 43; (1978) 142 CLR 1
publisher =Australasian Legal Information Institute
date = 9 November 1978
url =http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/HCA/1978/43.html
accessdate = 2007-09-21 ] where he believed that the Commonwealth should have paid the costs of the private individual, Danny Sankey, as well as that of the politicians, Gough Whitlam, Rex Connor, Jim Cairns and Lionel Murphy, but Fraser disagreed. [cite journal
first=Andrew
last=Leigh
title =The successful Attorney General - an oxymoron?
journal=Australian Law Journal
volume= 73
issue=2
date=1999
url =http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/~aleigh/pdf/AttorneyGeneral(ALJ).pdf
accessdate = 2007-09-21 ] Ellicott was reappointed in the third Fraser Ministry (1977 to 1980) as Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Capital Territory. He was Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment from November 1980 until his resignation on 17 February 1981 to become a judge on the Federal Court of Australia.

Ellicott resigned from the court in February 1983. [cite web
title =Alphabetical list of former judges
publisher =Federal Court of Australia
work=
url =http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/aboutct/jj_former.html
accessdate = 2007-09-21 ] He is currently an arbitrator on the Court of Arbitration for Sport. [cite web
title =Arbitrators
publisher =Court of Arbitration for Sport
work=
url =http://www.tas-cas.org/en/membres/frmmemb.htm
accessdate = 2007-09-21 ] On November 20, 2007, he was named as chair of the tribunal to investigate allegations of misbehaviour against the suspended Chief Justice of Fiji, Daniel Fatiaki. [cite web
title =Fatiaki tribunal named
publisher =Fiji Times
work=
url =http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=74720
accessdate = 2007-11-20 ]

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NAME = Ellicott, Robert James
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH = 15 April 1927
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DATE OF DEATH = Living
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