·    Former Chair of the Council of NSW Community Justice Centres, community mediators of neighbourhood disputes (1987-1993).

·    Casual lecturer in ADR at many Australian Universities and at public conferences within Australia and overseas.

·    Ran pilot mediation scheme in NSW Court of Appeal (2001-2003).

·    Judge of NSW Court of Appeal (1997-2003) and of NSW Supreme Court

·    Judge of NSW Land and Environment Court (1985-1997)

·    Judge of NSW District Court (1983-1985)

·    Acting Judge of Full Supreme Court of Western Australia (2001)

·    President of NSW Intellectually Handicapped Persons Review Tribunal (1983-1989)

·    Chair of Juvenille Leave Review Committee - to determine leave for dangerous -juvenile offenders (1985-1988)

·    President of NSW Anti-Discrimination Board (1979-1982)

·    NSW Deputy Ombudsman (1977-1979)

·    Commission of Inquiry into the ACT Leasehold System (Canberra) - 1995 - Report published by ACT Government in November 1995, (341 pages).

·    Steering Committee of National Judicial Orientation Program for NSW Judicial Commission and AIJA, (1993-1997) and (2000-2003)

·    Heritage Committee of NSW Supreme Court

·    Chair of Centre for Environmental Law Advisory Committee at Macquarie University (2001--)

·    Advisory Board of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law (1993--)

·    Advisory Board of Health Law Centre, La Trobe University (2002--)

·    Board Member of NSW State Records Authority (the Archive Authority) (2001-2003)

·    Chair of Records Management Working Party of NSW Supreme Court (1998-1999)

·    Member of Expert Reference Group to NSW Land and Environment Working Party (2000-2001)

·    Media Access Committee of NSW Supreme Court (1999-2000)

·    Federal Court Electronic Filing Working Party (1999-2001)

·    Chair of Education Committee of NSW Land and Environment Court (1990-1997)

·    Standing Advisory Committee on Judicial Education for NSW Judicial Commission (1992-1997)

·    Judicial Information Technology Committee for all NSW Courts (1995-1997)

·    Chair of National Consumer Advisory Council to Federal Government (1987-1993)

·    Chair of Council of NSW Community Justice Centres (1987-1993)

·    Consultant to NSW Law Reform Commission

·    Consultant to Australian Law Reform Commission

·    Chair of NRMA Community Advisory Committee (1993-1998) and NRMA Crim Safe Committee (1997-2000)

·    Chair of Australian Consumers' Association - publishers of Choice Magazine (1974-1986)

·    Founding Board Member of Citizen Advocacy NSW

·    Member of WESCAP (Western Sydney Citizen Advocacy Program)

·    Inaugural Board member of PIAC (Public Interest Advocacy Centre)

·    Vice-President of NSW Branch of Australian Section of International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) - observer missions to Indonesia

·    Executive office bearer of NSW Council for Civil Liberties

·    LL.B, LL.M (Hons) (Sydney University)

·    Practised at NSW Bar from 1964 (admitted 1961)

·    Appointed QC in 1981

·    Lecturer in Practice and Procedure and in Legal History at Sydney University Law School (1967-1975)

·    Member of NSW Bar Council

·    Founder of three sets of Barristers' Chambers in Sydney

·    Frequent guest lecturer at Australian and overseas universities on ADR, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Human Rights and Discrimination and Judicial Education

·    AM (1994) for service to environmental law and to the community

·    1998 award from National Environmental Law Association for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Environmental Law

·    Life Member of NSW Council for Intellectual Disability

·    Life Member of Australian Consumers Association

·    Harsh and Unconscionable Contracts of Work, with GD Woods (1973)

·    The Local Government Act of NSW 1993, with K Brady and S Mahony(1998)

·    Chapter contributions in six books on Urban Studies, Administrative Law, Environmental Law and Consumer Law.

·    Chair of Editorial Committee of four volume Service on Local Government, Planning and Environment, Butterworths Lexis (1993--)

·    Editorial Board Member of Environmental Law Review - published by Vathek in United Kingdom (2000--)

·    Co-ordinator and author for Halsury's Laws of Australia - Environmental Law, Local Government titles (1994-2002)

·    General Editor of Australian Local Government Planning and Environmental Digest (1993-1997)

·    Over 30 journal articles published in Australian and overseas on a variety of legal topics