Background
Jocelynne Scutt was born in Perth, Western Australia.
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She graduated in law from the University of Western Australia in 1969 and undertook postgraduate studies in law at the University of Sydney, at both Southern Methodist University and the University of Michigan in the United States, and Cambridge University in England.
Career
She is one of Australia"s leading human rights barristers, and has served as Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania and as a judge on the High Court of Fiji. Scutt has worked with the Australian Institute of Criminology and as director of research with the Legal and Constitutional Committee of the parliament of Victoria. From 1981-1982 she worked at the Sydney Bar and then was Deputy Chairperson of the Law Reform Commission, Victoria.
In 1986 she returned to private practice in Melbourne.
She served as the first Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania from 1999-2004. In 2007 she accepted a judicial post on the Fiji High Court.
She is also a Visiting Professor at University of Buckingham.
Membership
She is a member of the United Nations Committee Against Trafficking, a board member of the International Alliance of Women and its representative to the Coalition for the International Criminal Court.
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