Bankruptcy (Eligible Judges) Declaration 2026
I, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following declaration.
Dated 2 June 2026
Dr Andrew Leigh
Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
Part 2—Eligible judges
5 Declared judges of the Court
Part 3—Revocations
6 Revocations of earlier declarations
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
This instrument is the Bankruptcy (Eligible Judges) Declaration 2026.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Bankruptcy Act 1966.
4 Definitions
Note: Expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Bankruptcy Act 1966 as in force from time to time—see paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003.
In this instrument:
the Act means the Bankruptcy Act 1966.
Part 2—Eligible judges
5 Declared judges of the Court
Under subsection 129A(2) of the Act, each of the judges of the Court set out in an item of the following table, whose consent is in force under subsection 129A(1) of the Act, is declared to be an eligible judge for the purposes of the Act:
Item | Court | Judge |
1 | Federal Court of Australia | (a) Stewart Maxwell Anderson KC (b) Katrina Banks-Smith (c) Elizabeth Bennett (d) Robert James Bromwich SC (e) Natalie Charlesworth (f) Elizabeth Anne Cheeseman SC (g) Erin Jane Crowley (h) Roger Marc Derrington (i) Kylie Elizabeth Downes KC (j) Michael James Feutrill (k) Scott Anthony Goodman SC (l) John Allaster Halley SC (m) Christopher James Horan (n) Darren John Jackson SC (o) Michael Bryan Joshua Lee SC (p) Shaun Brendan McElwaine SC (q) Timothy James Francis McEvoy KC (r) Bernard Michael Murphy (s) David John O'Callaghan KC (t) Simon Patrick O'Sullivan (u) Nye Perram SC (v) Yaseen Shariff (w) Thomas Michael Thawley SC (x) Michael Francis Wheelahan (y) Michael Andew Wigney SC |
2 | Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) | (a) Michael Rodney Berry (b) Robin Lynn Cohen (c) Norah Helene Hartnett (d) Paul Anthony Joseph Howard (e) Michael William Jarrett (f) Steven James Jones (g) Robert Bruce McClelland (h) Richard John O'Brien (i) Grant Theo Riethmuller (j) Bruce Gordon Smith (k) Andrew Ian Strum (l) Linda Gail Sutherland (m) Ciara Aisling Tyson (n) Joshua Douglas Wilson KC |
3 | Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) | (a) Edvard Donald William Alstergren KC (b) Terry Donald Betts (c) James Stewart Brown (d) Colin Bradley Campbell (e) Mark Phillip Cleary (f) Philip David Corbett (g) Anne Elizabeth Demack (h) David Ian Dunkley (i) Gregory Mark Egan (j) Gillian Constance Eldershaw (k) Peter Fary (l) Sophie Alexandra Helena Given (m) Louise Ann Rachel Goodchild (n) Kate Helena Hughes (o) Douglas John Humphreys CSC OAM (p) Taskeen Heidi Jacobs (q) Leigh Andrew Thomas Johns (r) Dale James Kemp (s) Vanessa-Jane Leishman (t) Anastasis Andrew Liveris (u) Nicholas Manousardis (v) Geoffrey Ian Monahan (w) Gavin Mansfield (x) Jane Louise Marquard (y) Bernard Joseph McCabe (z) Steven Charles Arnold Middleton (za) Rania Skaros (zb) Alexander Whistler Street KC (zc) Salvatore Paul Vasta |
Note: Under the Act:
- the Court means a Court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy under the Act (see subsection 5(1) of the Act); and
- the Federal Court and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia have concurrent jurisdiction in bankruptcy (see section 27 of the Act).
Part 3—Revocations
6 Revocations of earlier declarations
All declarations in force immediately before the commencement of this item that were made under section 129A of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 are revoked.