Murray Allen
The Tribunal reviews (ie. hears appeals against) decisions made by the Mental Health Review Board under the Mental Health Act 1996.
Murray Allen is currently President of the Mental Health Review Board.
After practising law in Western Australia until 1978, Murray Allen held senior positions with the Commonwealth Treasury, the National Companies and Securities Commission and an international investment banking business. He was the regional commissioner for the Australian Securities Commission in WA between 1991 and 1996 and then WA's Ombudsman until 2001. Until his appointment to the State Administrative Tribunal, Murray was a consultant and part-time member of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
David Parry
BA, LLB(Hons)(Syd), BCL(Oxon), Grad.Dip.Leg.Pract.(UTS). Prior to his appointment as a senior member of the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia (SAT), David Parry practised as a lawyer in the areas of planning, environmental, local government and administrative law. He obtained degrees in Arts and Laws (with Honours) from the University of Sydney, and was awarded a British Foreign Office/BTR plc Scholarship to read for the Bachelor of Civil Law degree at Oxford University, which he obtained in 1991. He has tutored in Evidence at the University of Sydney, and was Managing Editor of the Environmental Law Reporter from 2001 to 2003. In 2003, he was a founding member of Martin Place Chambers, Sydney, the first specialist planning and environmental barristers’ chambers in Australia.
David heads the SAT development and resources stream and is a member of SAT’s rules, resource management and professional development committees. David is the principal author of SAT’s Standard orders made at directions hearings, Practice Notes 2 (review proceedings), 3 (original proceedings) and 4 (Review by judicial member in planning matters) and the pamphlets Information about Class 2 planning applications, A guide for experts giving evidence in the State Administrative Tribunal, Section 31 invitation by SAT for decision-maker to reconsider its decision and Third party participation in planning matters. David is also a co-author of the chapter Conducting proceedings in the State Administrative Tribunal in the WA Lawyers’ Practice Manual (2007, LBC) and has written several journal articles in relation to SAT’s practice, procedure and decisions.
Clive Raymond
Clive Raymond was first admitted to the practice of law in South Africa in 1976. He practised for 14 years as barrister at the Bar in South Africa and in Western Australia. As a solicitor, he was a partner in a leading national law firm and, later, a multi-disciplinary practice with an accounting firm. He has a wide range of commercial litigation experience, with particular expertise in alternative dispute resolution techniques. He is Chairman of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (WA Chapter) and for a number of years has been a national councillor or national vice president of the Institute.
Debbie Taylor
Debbie Taylor was appointed to the State Administrative Tribunal in October 2009 as a Senior Member in the Human Rights stream after a long legal career in England and in Western Australia.
She has a Bachelor of Arts (UWA 1976) and a Diploma in Law (Westminster 1983).
In 1984 she was called to the Bar of England and Wales where she practised at the Family Law Bar until returning permanently to Perth in 2008 as in-house counsel at the specialist divorce and family law firm of Carr and Co.
In 1990 she was admitted to practice in Western Australia. She is a former head of the Family Law Section at the Legal Aid Commission in Perth, where she worked from 1989 until 1991.
In London she practiced from the specialist family law chambers at 29 Bedford Row and specialised in international family law and medico-legal matters. She was a leading junior in child abduction cases. She has appeared as an advocate in the House of Lords, Court of Appeal and High Court in cases concerning child abduction, child protection, relocation, jurisdiction on divorce, adoption and the cross jurisdiction enforcement of financial orders.
In Australia she has appeared before the Family Court of Western Australia and the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia in domestic and international family law cases.
She has appeared as an expert witness regarding Australian and English family law in several jurisdictions.
In 1994 she was appointed as a legal member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for England and Wales.
Tim Carey
Tim Carey graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1981 with bachelor degrees in law and commerce. After a period as an associate to a Federal Court judge, he worked for 10 years in law firms in country Victoria and Melbourne, mainly in litigious matters ranging from personal injury/third party insurance and crime to commercial litigation and insolvency. In 1991, Tim commenced in private practice in Perth, working on a broad range of matters.
For the past 11 years, he was with the Australian Government Solicitor in Perth, where as a senior solicitor he practised in the areas of administrative law, migration, taxation appeals, bankruptcy and general litigation.
Felicity Child
Felicity Child has qualifications in both social work and law. She was a member of the Guardianship and Administration Board from 1992 until the incorporation of that jurisdiction into the SAT. She worked for over 10 years within a number of community legal centres in Western Australia and as a tutor at Curtin University in social work and welfare practice. Prior to her appointment to the SAT, Felicity was employed by Legal Aid WA.
Marie Connor
Marie Connor has studied urban and regional planning and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Urban and Regional Studies) and a Postgraduate Diploma (Urban and Regional Planning – Distinction). She has considerable experience in state and local government planning, and was a member of the Town Planning Appeal Committee and the Town Planning Appeal Tribunal prior to the establishment of the SAT.
Donna Dean
Donna Dean holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work degrees from the University of Western Australia. She has extensive experience in a variety of areas of social work in WA and NSW. She was a part-time sitting member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. In 1997, Donna joined the New South Wales Office of the Protective Commissioner (OPC). The OPC protects and administers the estates of people unable to make financial decisions for themselves. More recently, Donna worked for the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption before returning to Perth to take up her appointment with the SAT.
Bertus de Villiers
Bertus de Villiers (BA Law, LL.B, LL.D) is admitted as a legal practitioner in Australia and South Africa. He is a visiting fellow of the Law School of the University of Western Australiaand has taught on a part time basis constitutional and administrative law at UWA. He is also an inaugural Fellow of the Western Australian Institute of Dispute Management under the auspices of the Murdoch University. His areas of specialisation are constitutional and administrative law, environmental law and human rights, and native title and commercial law. He has published widely on these topics. His professional background includes positions as Manager (Principal Legal Officer) of the Goldfields Land and Sea Council and Principal Legal Officer for South African National Parks. From 1990-1996 he was head of the Centre for Constitutional Analysis in Pretoria where he had close involvement in the debates leading to and the drafting of the South African Constitution.
Jennifer Hawkins
Jenny Hawkins was admitted to practice in 1986. She commenced her legal career as a solicitor with the Crown Law Department undertaking civil and criminal litigation on behalf of the State. After 5 years with the Crown Law Department she was appointed a Registrar of the Workers Compensation Board. As a Registrar she was largely involved in resolving disputes by mediation at Pre Trial Conferences. Upon the abolition of the Workers Compensation Board Jenny commenced in private legal practice. She has held the position of partner in a number of leading law firms in Perth for over 10 years practising principally in the areas of commercial and insurance litigation. During this time she has also served as a legal member of the Psychologists Board of WA, undertaken the LEADR mediators course and commenced a Masters of Laws.
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan first worked as a planning consultant in Queensland and Victoria. From 1979 until 2003 Jim was with the Western Australian Minister for Planning's Town Planning Appeal Committee. Jim then became a full-time member of the Town Planning Appeal Tribunal before working with a private law firm. In June 2005 Jim was appointed a full‑time member of the State Administrative Tribunal. Jim has a Bachelor of Arts (UWA), Master Urban Studies (U of Qld), Bachelor of Laws (U of London) and a Professional Certificate in Arbitration and Mediation. He is an accredited mediator with IAMA and a Certified Practising Planner with the Planning Institute of Australia.
Jack Mansveld
Jack Mansveld has qualifications in accountancy and social work. He was employed in public accounting for 15 years, specialising in income tax and management accounting. He decided in 1986 to change careers and studied social work, graduating with first class honours in 1989. Since then he has managed a community legal centre, worked in the area of low-income housing policy, sat as a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and, most recently, has worked as a guardian and Manager of Advocacy and Investigation with the Public Advocate (WA).
Peter McNab
Peter Donald McNab graduated in law from the University of Western Australia in 1978–79 and moved to the Northern Territory in 1979. In 2003, he was awarded a Masters in Law from the University of Melbourne. From 1980–1989 he worked in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in Darwin and in 1989 he joined the Northern Territory University. At the same time, he was appointed as a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal, a part-time position he held until December 2002. In 1994, he held a senior position in the Office of the Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commissioner. In 2000, he started practising full-time as a barrister at the independent Bar in Darwin.
Maurice Spillane
Maurice was appointed a full-time member of the State Administrative Tribunal in January 2005. He sits across all four streams at the Tribunal but principally in the Development and Resources and Commercial and Civil streams and has a particular interest in mediation. He graduated in Law in Ireland in 1978 where he practiced for 10 years before coming to Perth in 1988 with his family. In Western Australia he practiced in the areas of Medical Law, Professional Indemnity, Planning and Local Government Law. Maurice is also currently Chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee at Princess Margaret Hospital and King Edward Memorial Hospital, a Board Member of Mercycare and a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research on Children’s Environmental Health.