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Ian Douglas Temby (born 5 May 1942) is an Australian barrister. He was the first Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, the first Commissioner of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and was a commissioner in the Temby Royal Commission into the Finance Broking Industry, whose report was tabled in 2002.
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- Ian Temby Report Into HSU Report Finds Corruption Nepotism and Cronyism
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Early life and education
Temby was educated at the Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia, where he earned an LL.B. (Hons.), graduating in 1964.
Career
Temby was admitted to legal practice on 23 December 1966 and joined the Perth law firm Northmore Hale Davey and Leake in the same year. He went to the Bar in Perth in 1978 and was appointed Queen's Counsel on 16 July 1980. Temby is a past President of the Law Society of Western Australia, and of the Law Council of Australia (1983), the peak national body for lawyers.
He served as the inaugural Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, from 1984 to 1989, and as the inaugural Commissioner of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), from 1989 – 1994.
Temby has been in private practice in Sydney since 1 May 1994. Since 1996, he has practised as a barrister at 3 St. James' Hall Chambers, where he is Head of Chambers. In 2008, he became a member of the Council of the Bar Association; and, in 2009, he became Treasurer of the Association.
In 2004 Temby was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the law, particularly in developing the role of the independent prosecutor in the Australian criminal justice system.