The Hon. John Eric Middleton - President

Justice Middleton was appointed to the Australian Competition Tribunal as President on 1 July 2016. He was Deputy President between 2006 and 2016. Justice Middleton has been a judge of the Federal Court of Australia since 2006.

He graduated from the University of Melbourne as Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and from the University of Oxford as Bachelor of Civil Law (First Class Honours). He was the Winter Williams Scholar (University of Oxford (1976)).

He was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1976. After serving as Associate to Sir Ninian Stephen, then Justice of the High Court of Australia, he was called to the Bar in 1979 where he practised predominantly in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Resources Law and Commercial Law.

He was appointed one of Her Majesty's Counsel for the State of Victoria in 1991 and subsequently became Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council.

His extra curial activities include being a Council Member of The University of Melbourne, a member of The American Law Institute, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand and President of the Oxford Society in Victoria.

He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 for services as a former Chairman of the Bar Council, to the community and to education.