Professor Les McCrimmon
Full-time Commissioner
Professor Les McCrimmon was initially appointed a full-time member of the Australian Law Reform Commission for a three-year period, commencing on 4 January 2005. He has since been reappointed, with his current term due to expire on 30 June 2009. He led the ALRC's review of the uniform Evidence Acts (Uniform Evidence Law, 2005) and the landmark Privacy Inquiry (For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice, 2008).
He has served on a number of NSW Bar Association Committees, the NSW Attorney General's working party established to review the law and practice relating to conflict of interest and the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General Uniform Evidence Act Expert Reference Group.
Professor McCrimmon is an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. He is a founding member of the Global Alliance for Justice Education, and served on its International Steering Committee from 1996-1999 and 2004-2006. He is also a senior teacher with the Australian Advocacy Institute, and has been a member of its Management Committee since 1999.
Professor McCrimmon was formerly an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, and Bond University. Prior to entering the academy, he was a trial lawyer in Calgary, Canada, where he practiced principally in the areas of corporate, commercial, banking and insolvency litigation.
He has lectured and published in the areas of litigation, advocacy, real property and legal education. His publications include Fundamentals of Trial Techniques (with T Mauet) and Real Property Law in Queensland (with C MacDonald, A Wallace and M Weir).
Professor McCrimmon has a BA and LLB from the University of Alberta, Canada, and an LLM from the University of Queensland. He was admitted as a legal practitioner in the Northern Territory in 1988, and in New South Wales in 2001.