The Hon Berna Joan COLLIER Judge, Federal Court of Australia: 8.2.2006
Location: Brisbane
Other Commissions/Appointments:
Australian Law Reform Commission - Member (part time - to 26 October 2013)
Supreme and National Courts of Justice of Papua New Guinea - Judge
Justice Berna Joan Collier was appointed a Federal Court judge on 8 February 2006.
Prior to this she was one of three national Commissioners of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, a position she held from 5 November 2001, and a director of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority from November 2001 until June 2003.
Justice Collier has written widely in relation to aspects of insolvency and commercial law and medico-legal practice. From July 1997 until February 2006 she was Clayton Utz Professor of Commercial Law at Queensland University of Technology. She is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Justice Collier was awarded the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society through corporate regulation in recognition of her work in this area.
