Shane Marshall

The Honourable Justice Shane Raymond Marshall AM is a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia and from January 2017 until 30 June 2023 he held successive Commissions as an acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and remains in that role for the purpose of finalising matters before him on appeal commenced before the expiry of his last Commission.Since August 2019 he has been a Deputy Chairperson of the Victorian Racing Tribunal.In October 2023 he was appointed as a member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Marshall graduated with degrees in Economics (1977) and Law (Hons)(1979) at Monash University. After graduating, he practised as a solicitor, from 1979 to 1981, at Maurice Blackburn and Co., in its industrial law section.He practised as a barrister from November 1981 until June 1995 predominantly in industrial relations and employment law[1]

He attended St.Bede's College Mentone where he was Dux of Humanities in 1973. In 2008 he was inducted into the St.Bede's Hall of Fame.

Marshall was appointed as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia on 17 July 1995,(the then third youngest ever appointment to the Federal Court ) and was concurrently as a judge of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia (later merged into the Federal Court). He retired on 21 November 2015.

Between 2004 and 2013, he was also an additional judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.[1]In that court he presided over judge alone trials and jury trials and civil actions as well as sitting on full court appeals in civil and criminal matters.

From October 2017 until June 2021 he was a part time Judge of the Supreme Court of Nauru for refugee appeals. From 2016 until 2023 he was a lawyer member of the Victorian Councillor Conduct Panel. He is the Patron of the SouthEast Monash Legal Service and a member of the Australian Intercultural Society's Advisory Board.

In 2003, Marshall was recognised with a Centenary Medal for services to industrial relations and in June 2020 with being made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to industrial relations,the law, the judiciary and mental health.

From 2005 to 2011 he was an associate member of the Judicial System Monitoring Program in East Timor and wrote several articles on the justice system in East Timor. Between 2002 and 2011 his work in East Timor included giving seminars on labor law to District Court judges, participating in a program designed to connect the official justice system to systems of community justice in villages and organising the law and justice section of development conferences in Dili.

He was a member of the board of the law faculty at Monash University between 2008 and 2013, and a member of its advisory committee from 2013 to 2015.

He was a trustee of the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve Trust from 2003 to 2017.

From 2016 to 2019 he was chairman of Greyhound Racing Victoria Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board.

He was an inugurual director of and an ambassador for the Wellbeing and the Law Foundation. He has been a volunteer speaker for Beyond Blue.

In February 2015 Marshall spoke publicly about his battle with depression, and similar challenges experienced by members of the legal profession.[2] He has delivered several addresses to law societies, bar associations, law firms, defence force legal personnel, rural rotary clubs and courts in Australia and New Zealand about depression generally and depression and the law.

He is married with two daughters and identical twin granddaughters.