David Jackson (judge)
David Jackson QC | |
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| Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland | |
| Assumed office 8 October 2012 | |
The Honourable Justice David Jackson is a Judge in the Supreme Court of Queensland which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland on 8 October 2012.[1]
Career
Jackson was called to the Queensland Bar in 1977 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990. Jackson now sits on the Commercial List of the Supreme Court of Queensland. In August 2014 he was appointed as Chair of the Queensland Law Reform Commission.[2]
Jackson is currently being investigated over his role in the the collapse of investment company Equititrust which raised hundreds of millions of dollars from members of the public and collapsed owing $260 million dollars to the investors causing many to lose their homes and life savings. The offices of the company were raided by the Australian Federal Police on October 20, 2011 with Jackson having resigned as a director only three days before. Jackson is expected to be examined over his conduct with this company in the Federal Court in 2017.[3]
Jackson caused outrage by releasing a notorious female sex offender, Jan-Maree Farrenkothen, back into the community deeming her not a risk. Farrenkothen assisted her husband in raping two young girls in Gladstone in 2002. Farrenkothen used her own son to lure a 10 year old girl to their home where she was then gagged, handcuffed and raped by her husband. She threatened to break the child’s neck after she complained her handcuffs were too tight. When police arrested Farrenkothen, she revealed she believed her husband had planned to kill the girl, had police not found her. The couple also committed a depraved act against a four year old. Jackson ruled she was not a serious risk to the community.
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