Lionel Lukin (judge)
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Justice Lionel Oscar Lukin (died 1 June 1944) was appointed as the first judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory is the superior court for the ACT. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the territory in civil matters , and hears the most serious criminal matters...

, Australia
Australia
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 on 25 January 1934 and remained the sole Judge of the Court until November 1943 when he retired due to ill health.

Judicial career

During his tenure on the Capital Territory Court, Lukin was also a Judge of the Federal Court of Bankruptcy. This meant that he did not sit full time on the Capital Territory Court. Additionally, Lukin was also a judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland
Supreme Court of Queensland
The Supreme Court of Queensland, which is based at the Law Courts Complex, is the superior court for the Australian State of Queensland and sits around the middle of the Australian court hierarchy...

 from 26 July 1910 until his retirement from the court on 18 July 1926. He preferred to reside in Brisbane and travelled to Rockhampton by train to discharge his duties. This allowed him to be a member of every Full Court.

In 1929 Lukin was sitting as a judge on the Conciliation and Arbitration Court, where he handed down a new award for timber workers reducing wages and increasing weekly hours from 44 to 48. This precipitated the 1929 Timber Workers strike
1929 Timber Workers strike
The 1929 Timber Workers strike was a labour dispute in Australia caused by Judge Lukin of the Arbitration Court handing down an industrial award decision on 23 December 1928 to reduce the wages and increase the hours for 20,000 timber workers from a 44-hour week to a 48-hour week...

 which lasted for 5 months.

See also

  • Judiciary of Australia
    Judiciary of Australia
    The judiciary in Australia is modelled substantially on the system of courts which existed in England.The large number of courts and tribunals in Australia have different procedural powers and characteristics, different jurisdictional limits, different remedial powers and different cost...

  • List of Judges of the Supreme Court of Queensland
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