Alan Robertson (judge)

In 2021, Robertson was appointed to be the Triennial Code Reviewer of the Code of Conduct for Copyright Collecting Societies. He delivered that Report on 21 March 2022.

In March 2022, Robertson was first appointed an independent legal arbiter by the President of the New South Wales Legislative Council under Standing Order 52 to evaluate and report on the validity of disputed claims of privilege over documents tabled under order of the House.

In the last quarter of 2022, Robertson was a member of the 3 person advisory panel set up by the Commonwealth Attorney-General to provide him with recommendations as to suitable candidates for possible appointment to the Federal Court of Australia.

In December 2021, Robertson was appointed to the part-time office of Deputy Chair of the New South Wales Electoral Commission.

Robertson retired from the Federal Court and from his tribunal roles on 9 May 2020, having reached the retiring age mandated by the Australian Constitution.

Robertson was elected President of the Australian Academy of Law with effect from 1 July 2020.

In 2020, Robertson was appointed an Honorary Professor at the College of Law, Australian National University.

In May 2020, Robertson was appointed by the Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission as Independent Reviewer into the Commission's role in the circumstances that led to the death of an NDIS participant. He delivered his report on 31 August 2020, making 10 recommendations as to how the systems and framework governing the Commission should be amended.

In November 2020, Robertson gave the 2020 Spigelman Oration to the New South Wales Bar Association. He spoke on the topic of Supervising the legal boundaries of executive powers. This has since been published.

In 2019, Robertson was a Visiting Judicial Fellow at the Australian National University. He gave lectures as part of the ANU's Visiting Judges Program.

In 2011, Robertson was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia, based in Sydney.

He was the convenor of the Administrative Law Section of the New South Wales Bar Association from 1995 to 2008 and convenor of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Section (now the Public Law Section) from 2008 to 2011. He was a part-time member of the Administrative Review Council between 1992 and 1997.

In 1983 Robertson moved to the private bar in Sydney. He read with WMC Gummow. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 1995.

He commenced practice as a legal officer in the Attorney-General's Department, initially in the Deputy Crown Solicitor's Office, soon moving to the Advisings Division, working with Dennis Rose. Between 1981 and 1983 Robertson worked as assistant to the then-Commonwealth Solicitor-General, Sir Maurice Byers QC.

Robertson began studying law, part-time, in 1976. He graduated Bachelor of Laws (Hons) in 1980. He attended the Legal Workshop at the ANU. Robertson was first admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.

Robertson graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1972. In early 1973, he joined the Commonwealth Public Service, as an Administrative Trainee, with placements at the Treasury, the Public Service Board and the Department of the Capital Territory.

Alan Robertson SC (born 10 May 1950) is a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia. He served as a deputy president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and retired from the Court in May 2020 having reached the mandatory retirement age for federal judicial appointments.