Robert Beech-Jones

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Justice Robert Beech-Jones is a Judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court. He is the incoming Chief Judge at Common Law, a post that he will take up on 31 August 2021. He will also be elevated to the New South Wales Court of Appeal on that date.^[1]

Beech-Jones began practising law in Sydney in the 1980s. He was called to the New South Wales Bar Association in 1992, joined 11th Floor St James Hall, and was appointed senior counsel in 2006. He primarily practised in the areas of commercial law, regulatory enforcement, white collar crime and administrative law.^[2]

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Beech-Jones spent his childhood years in Savage River, Tasmania, although with a brief stint in Montreal, Canada. He studied law and science at the Australian National University, graduating with Honours in 1988.

Beech-Jones is married to Australian playwright Suzie Miller, with whom he has two children. He also has three brothers. There is speculation that his parents are of Spain descent, having been dissenters during the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco. It is said that they fled Spain in the mid-1900s and settled in Tasmania, where, for anonymity they adopted the surname 'Beech-Jones', an anglicisation of the traditional Spanish surname 'Béchjoñez'.

Beech-Jones has a keen interest in Australian rules football, marathon running, mathematics, and grapes, the latter of which perhaps betrays his rumoured Spanish heritage.

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