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{{Short description|Australian judge}}
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'''David Jackson''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KC|}} is a Judge in the [[Supreme Court of Queensland]] which is the [[Australian court hierarchy|highest ranking court]] in the Australian [[States and territories of Australia|State]] of [[Queensland]]. He was appointed to the [[Supreme Court of Queensland]] on 8 October 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/contact-us/judges-supreme-court |title=Judges of the Supreme Court contacts - Queensland Courts |access-date=13 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815004715/http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/contact-us/judges-supreme-court |archive-date=15 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Career==
Justice Jackson began his career at the Bar on 14 September 1977, where he was a pupil of [[John Dowsett]]. During his 35 years as a barrister, Jackson J predominantly practised in the field of commercial law, specialising in resource and mining law. On 29 November 1990, he was appointed Queen's Counsel.<ref>{{Cite web|title=StackPath|url=https://archive.sclqld.org.au/sclpub/2012-SCHP/07%20-%20Legal%20Personalia.pdf|access-date=2021-06-20|website=archive.sclqld.org.au}}</ref>

While at the Bar, Jackson J was a member of the council of the Bar Association of Queensland and a director of the Association between 2011 and 2013. His Honour also served as a member of the Supreme Court Library Committee in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|title=StackPath|url=https://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/djjackson|access-date=2021-06-20|website=www.sclqld.org.au}}</ref>

On 8 October 2012, his Honour was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. His was the first swearing-in ceremony to take place in the Banco Court of the Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law.

In August 2014, Jackson J was appointed as Chair of the Queensland Law Reform Commission.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.qls.com.au/symposium/presenters |title=QLS Symposium 2014 |website=www.qls.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307040114/http://www.qls.com.au/symposium/presenters |archive-date=2014-03-07}} </ref> Under his Honour's leadership, the Law Reform Commission published - amongst others - the Review of consent laws and the excuse of mistake of fact, the Review of termination of pregnancy laws (which led to the introduction of the ''Termination of Pregnancy Act'' 2018), a Report on the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme, and a Report on Expunging criminal convictions for historical gay sex offences.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Queensland|first=c=AU; o=The State of|title=Recently completed reviews|url=https://www.qlrc.qld.gov.au/recently-completed-reviews|access-date=2021-06-20|website=www.qlrc.qld.gov.au|language=en}}</ref>

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