| Chief Justice Warren was appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria in November 2003. She commenced her legal career in the Victorian Public Service and was admitted to practice in 1975. She was later appointed an assistant chief parliamentary counsel. Her Honour signed the Roll of the Victorian Bar in 1985 and practised predominantly in the areas of administrative law, commercial law and town planning. In 1997 she was appointed Queen’s Counsel. In 1998 she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria and presided in all jurisdictions.
From 1999 to 2002 she was a Commercial List judge sitting on cases such as Ashton Millson Investments Ltd v Colonial Ltd (2001) 162 FLR 145 (‘Computershare’), Capricorn Diamonds Investments v Catto (2002) 5 VR 61 and Austrim Nylex Ltd v Kroll (2002) 170 FLR 265. Her Honour has also presided on numerous commercial cases in the Court of Appeal, for example Elliot v ASIC (2004) 10 VR 369 (‘Water Wheel’). |  | | | |
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| Justice Pagone is the judge in charge of the Commercial Court and manages List A of the Commercial Court.
Justice Pagone was admitted to practice in 1980 and after the signing the bar roll in 1985 he was appointed Queens Counsel in 1996. He previously held a position on the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2001-2002 and has held positions on the Victoria Civil and Administrative Tribunal and was Special Counsel to the Australian Taxation Office.
Whilst at the Bar, his Honour specialised in taxation law and was the President of the Tax Bar Association. Justice Pagone also practiced widely in commercial, constitutional, public and human rights law. He has also been a member of the Victorian Bar Council, the Taxation Institute of Australia and is a member of the Law Council BLS Executive, of which he was chairman in 1999-2000.
In 2002, he was appointed a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has taught in both the undergraduate and the post graduate program at Monash University and the post graduate program at Melbourne University. |  | | | |
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| List D, E and F Judge
Justice Davies is a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria having been appointed on 31 March 2009. She practised as a barrister from 1983 to 1987 and from 1990 until her appointment to the Bench. She took silk in November 2004.
Her Honour has maintained an interest in legal education and currently lectures at the University of Melbourne in taxation law and written advocacy.
Her Honour is currently the shared Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court List E (Corporations List) and Judge in charge of Commercial Court List D and the Commercial Court List F (Tax List).
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| List C and List G Judge
Justice Croft practised extensively in property and commercial law and was an arbitrator and mediator in property, construction and commercial disputes, domestically and internationally. He was an Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators (IAMA) Grade 1 Arbitrator (the highest grading), a member of the IAMA Australian and international panel of commercial arbitrators, a member of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG) panels of international arbitrators; and has represented APRAG at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) International Arbitration Working Group Sessions from 2005 until 2010. Justice Croft is presently a member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law Working Group on Choice of Law in International Contracts.
Justice Croft is also a Life Fellow of IAMA, a Life Fellow of ACICA, a Judicial Fellow of AMINZ and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was a member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). He was the IAMA National President (1997 - 2000) and was an IAMA National Councilor and IAMA Vice-President until his appointment. Justice Croft was the Treasurer, a Director and a Fellow of ACICA. He was an accredited mediator under the Australian National Mediator Accreditation System (and a Victorian Bar and IAMA Accredited Mediator) and a Sessional Member, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He is the author, or co-author, of leading texts in the property, equity, leasing, securities and commercial law fields and of numerous articles and conference papers on commercial arbitration (domestic and international) and property and commercial law subjects. Justice Croft is an Adjunct Professor of Law, Deakin University, Melbourne. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2000 and holds the degrees of B Ec, LLB and LLM from Monash University, Melbourne, and PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Justice Croft is the judge in charge of List C (General Commercial) and List G (Arbitration – International and Domestic) of the Commercial Court in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. |  | | | |
| Justice Anne Ferguson is a List E (Corporations proceeding) Judge (with Justice Davies).
Having been admitted in 1984, Justice Ferguson practised as a solicitor specialising in insolvency and general commercial litigation. She was a partner of Allens Arthur Robinson and before that, Gadens Lawyers.
Her Honour completed her doctoral thesis on the topic of Unfair Contracts at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She also lectured in Monash University’s Master of Laws programme on the Law of Liquidations.
Justice Ferguson has also been a member of the Insolvency and Reconstruction Committee (Vic) of the Law Council of Australia.
In 2010, her Honour was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria
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| Associate Justice to Lists A and E |  | | | |
| Associate Justice to Lists B and E |  | | | |
| Associate Justice to List D |  | | | |