Brian Sully

Sully died on 6 March 2019. He was made a life member of the New South Wales Bar Association shortly before his death.

On Australia Day in 2015, Sully was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for his significant service to the judiciary, and to the law, particularly through legal education in New South Wales. On 14 February 2019 the Bar Council resolved by acclamation to confer Life Membership of the NSW Bar Association on Sully. A certificate of Life Membership was presented to him by the President, Tim Game SC, at a small private gathering of friends and family including members of the judiciary and former colleagues of 12th floor Wentworth Selborne on the evening of 20 February 2019.

Sully was an adjunct professor of law at the Western Sydney University. He lectured in advocacy although he lectured in Criminal Procedure and Evidence in 2007. Sully donated his collection of legal books and judicial robes to the university, which are on display in the Faculty of Law in Campbelltown.

Sully served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW from 1989 to 2007. From 1997 to 2000, Sully was Chairman of the Legal Qualifications Committee.

Sully studied law at the University of Sydney graduating in 1959.

Sully was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1959. In 1962, Sully was called to the NSW Bar. Following 17 years of running a busy, broad professional practice, Sully was appointed as Her Majesty's Counsel in 1979.

Brian Thomas Sully AM QC (3 February 1936 – 6 March 2019) was an Australian judge and legal scholar. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1989 to 2007.