Garry Hiskey

Garry Hiskey, a retired magistrate, acted as solicitor for Yalata Community Inc. in the negotiations that led to the passage of the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984 (SA). He was appointed registrar of the Credit Tribunal in 1976 and took the role of senior solicitor for the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement of South Australia from 1980 to 1984. From 1984 to 2007 he served as a magistrate in the Magistrates Court of South Australia, spending many years as joint editor with Dr Andrew Cannon of the looseleaf service, Magistrates Court Practice (SA). In 2003 he graduated with a Master of Laws degree from the University of Wollongong with his thesis entitled Understanding Magistrates Work. From 2007 until 30 June 2017 he worked part-time as an auxiliary magistrate.