Federal Court of Australia

Qualifications

BA
LLB

External links

Federal Court

Qualifications

• BA, Macquarie University (1st class hons) (1987)

• LLB, Sydney University (1st class hons) (1991)

• Called to the NSW Bar in 2002

• Admitted as solicitor (1991)

Relevant work history

• 2022

  • Judge, Federal Court of Australia (27 October 2022 - )

• 2008-2022

  • Judge, Federal Court of Australia (3 Sept 2008-2022) (Sydney) 

  • Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the ACT 

  • Presidential Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal 

  • Deputy President, Copyright Tribunal

• 2006-2008
  Judge, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

• 2002-2006
  Called to the bar

• 1992-2002
  Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jacques (partner from 1997)

Relevant judgments

See also cases database (Jagot)

• ACCC v NSW Ports [2021] FCA 720

• Epic Games, Inc v Apple Inc [2021] FCAFC 122
  (private international law - stay application)

• TX Australia Pty Ltd v ACCC [2020] FCA 1100

• ACCC v Cascade Coal [2019] FCAFC 154

• Ultra Tune Australia Pty Ltd v ACCC [2019] FCAFC 164
  (franchising code - appeal against penalty (penalty reduced))

• ACCC v LG Electronics Australia Pty Ltd [2018] FCAFC 96
  (consumer law - misleading or deceptive conduct - false or misleading representations)

• Port of Newcastle Operations Pty Ltd v ACCC [2017] FCA 1330
  (administration - application for judicial review)

• ACCC v Reckitt Benckiser (Australia) Pty Ltd [2016] FCAFC 181
  (consumer law - pecuniary penalties)

• ACCC v Colgate-Palmolive Pty Ltd (No 3) [2016] FCA 676 (Woolworths)
  (exclusionary provisions - penalties)

• ACCC v Colgate-Palmolive Pty Ltd (No 2) [2016] FCA 528 (Colgate)
  (anti-competitive conduct, price fixing - pecuniary penalty)

• ACCC v Gourmet Goody’s Family Restaurant Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 1216
  (consumer - failure to prominently identify single price for menu items - pecuniary penalty)

• Ascot Four Pty Ltd v ACCC [2009] FCAFC 61
  (consumer - misleading or deceptive conduct)

Speeches (select)

• Justice Jayne M Jagot, ‘Some thoughts about proof in competition cases’ (speech, 18th Annual Competition Law and Economics Workshop, 15 October 2021 (online))

• Hon Jayne Jagot, 'The Common Law and Competition Law' (Bannerman Competition Lecture, 22 February 2018) (also available on Federal Court website)

• Hon Jayne Jagot, 'Challenges of economic concepts in judicial matters' (15th Annual Competition Law and Economics Workshop, Adelaide, 14 October 2017)

More information

Appointment to High Court

• Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Appointment to the High Court of Australia, Media release 29 September 2022

• Law Council of Australia, Appointment of the Honourable Justice Jayne Jagot (29 September 2022)

Appointment to Federal Court

• Speech by Anna Katxmann SC at the swearing-in of Jayne Jagot as judge of the Federal Court (3 September 2008)

• 'The Hon Justice Jayne Jagot - Appointment' [2008] NSWBarAssocNews 73

News

Appointment to High Court

• Paul Karp, ‘Jayne Jagot appointed to Australia’s high court, creating first majority-female bench’ (The Guardian, 29 September 2022)

• Tom McIlroy and Michael Pelly, ‘Jayne Jagot joins the High Court’ (AFR, 29 September 2022)