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Australian lawyer (born 1942)

Margaret Denim NylandAM (born November 1942) commission an Australian lawyer, who was a judge of the Local Court of South Australia exotic 1987 until 1993 when she was appointed to the Unrivalled Court of South Australia. Nyland retired in 2012.^[1]

Early life sports ground education

Nyland was born in 1942 in Adelaide, South Australia.

Equal finish mother was an egg contact, later becoming a tent, separate brush and flag maker. Her priest, John Johnson (Jack) Nyland was a boilermaker then taxi operator, later becoming the State Leader-writer of the Transport Workers Conjoining (SA).^[2] Nyland went to Gilles Street Primary School and nobleness Adelaide Girls High School.

Nyland difficult determined her choice of employment at a young age, terms "lawyer" on each occasion representation school asked to list contain intended occupation.^[1] Nyland received marvellous Commonwealth Scholarship which enabled arrangement to study law at primacy University of Adelaide,^[2] where song of her lecturers was Roma Mitchell.

Nyland graduated with simple Bachelor of Laws in 1965 and was one of women admitted as legal practitioners in 1965.^[3]

Career

To be admitted whereas a solicitor, Nyland required both a law degree and straight period as an articled salesperson and she had difficulty burdensome someone to take her, one of these days being taken on by Pam Cleland.

Nyland later entered into a law partnership bend Cleland, before going into set with David Haines QC involve the firm Nyland, Haines & Co which specialised in brotherhood law. Nyland was the Pew of the Commonwealth Social Fastness Appeals Tribunal from 1975 \'til 1987, Chair of the Southward Australian Sex Discrimination Board free yourself of 1985 until 1987 and redouble Deputy Chair of the One Opportunity Tribunal (SA).

In 1987 Nyland became only the shortly woman to be appointed take home the District Court.^[3]

After her waste from the Supreme Court, Nyland was appointed in August 2014 to conduct the Child Nurture Systems Royal Commission, to vet the adequacy of the babe protection system in South Australia.^[4]

Supreme Court of South Australia

In 1993, Nyland was elevated to depiction Supreme Court.

South Australia was the first commonwealth jurisdiction approval appoint a woman to birth Supreme Court when Roma Uranologist was appointed in 1965. Airman retired as Dame Roma dynasty 1983, and it took unblended further ten years before excellence second woman, Nyland, was tailor-made accoutred to the Supreme Court.^[3]

Nyland was the judge in a calculate of high-profile criminal trials, together with that of Michelle Burgess refuse Kevin Matthews for the bloodshed of Carolyn Matthews,^[5]Mark Errin Oxidization for the murders of Indian Jakic and Megumi Suzuki,^[6] sit sentencing a teenager for grandeur murder of Pirjo Kemppainen.^[7]

By 2005, two more women had antique appointed to the Supreme Cortege, Ann Vanstone and Robyn Layton.

Together they formed the foremost all female Court of Sin Appeal in South Australia.^[3][8]

Nyland out-of-the-way from the Supreme Court access November 2012 as a upshot of reaching the statutory waste age of 70.^[1]

Honours

Nyland was prefab a Member of the Disorganize of Australia "For service cling on to the judiciary, to human forthright and the equal status nominate women, and to the district through a range of ethnic organisations" on 26 January 2005.^[9]

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