Lindsay Graeme Foster (1951-2021)

23/11/2021

Vale

The Hon Justice Lindsay Graeme Foster formerly of Eleven Wentworth Chambers and a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia passed away on 21 November 2021.

Justice Foster came to the bar in 1981 and took silk in 1994. Prior to his call to the bar, he worked as a solicitor at Henry Davis York and Baker & McKenzie before a two-year stint as general counsel and director of real estate acquisitions at McDonald’s Australia. He was educated at Knox Grammar, which he had attended on an academic scholarship and where he had been dux in each year as well as an outstanding sportsman and participant in the school’s extracurricular activities, and subsequently at University of Sydney from which he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Law and a Master of Law.

He was appointed to the Bench of the Federal Court of Australia on 4 September 2008, where he remained as Judge until his retirement in 2020.

Members will be advised of funeral arrangements when they are available.