Goldring Lecture 2023

On Thursday, 26 October 2023, the School of Law will host the annual Goldring Lecture to honour the late Jack Goldring, University of Wollongong’s founding Dean of Law. The School of Law is pleased to share that The Honourable Terry Buddin SC, will deliver this year’s Goldring Lecture.

Professor Buddin has been actively involved in the criminal justice system for over 40 years. His association with the School of Law at the University of Wollongong commenced in 2012 following his retirement as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. From 2012 until 2021, Professor Buddin was the Director of the Law School’s acclaimed LLM program in Criminal Practice, a course designed to enhance the advocacy skills of practitioners in the field. Since 2022 he has been teaching an undergraduate elective ‘Miscarriages of Justice’ with Dr Kylie Lingard, a course which they co-designed.

After receiving degrees from the Universities of Sydney, Illinois and Oxford, Professor Buddin taught at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales for 7 years. He then worked as a senior policy adviser in the NSW Attorney-General’s Department before entering the practising profession, initially as a solicitor and then as a barrister. Thereafter, he held the key statutory offices of Director of Public Prosecutions (ACT), Senior Public Defender (NSW) and Crown Advocate (NSW).

In 2002 he was appointed to the Supreme Court (NSW) where he presided over many murder trials and regularly sat in the Court of Criminal Appeal. He also served as an Acting Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2013. For a number of years, he was a Deputy President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal (NSW) before being appointed as the inaugural Inspector of the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (NSW) from 2017 to 2022.