Speaker appoints integrity commissioner

22 April 2021

Following the resignation of the Inaugural ACT Integrity Commissioner The Hon Dennis Cowdroy AO QC in December 2020, and a nationwide executive recruitment, the Speaker, Joy Burch MLA, has today announced that The Hon Michael F. Adams QC has been appointed as the ACT’s Integrity Commissioner.

“Mr Adams has been acting in the role of Integrity Commissioner since his appointment in January of this year and I am pleased that he is able to continue the important work that he and the Commission have been undertaking during this time”.

The Hon. Adams was appointed Justice of the NSW Supreme Court in 1998, retiring from the court in 2017 to commence a three-year term as the inaugural Chief Commissioner of the NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission and from 1998 to 2017 was a Judge in the Common Law Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, including in the Court of Criminal Appeal.  During the period 2005 to 2013, Mr Adams also contributed as a Judge in sessional sittings of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal and was a Judge on the United Nations Dispute Tribunal from 2009 to 2010.  Mr Adams’ legal career began in 1970 as a Legal Officer in the Papua New Guinea Public Solicitor’s Office.

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