Hugh Dillon

Hugh Dillon BA, LL.B, LL.M

Deputy President NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal, former NSW Deputy State Coroner

Hugh Dillon is a part-time Deputy President of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal, and an Adjunct Professor at the UNSW Law School.  He retired as a Deputy State Coroner and magistrate at the end of 2016. He was a member of the National Judicial College of Australia’s Programmes Advisory Committee 2007-2017.  He is co-author of Waller’s Coronial Law and Practice in New South Wales and The Australasian Coroner’s Manual, and was editor of Advocacy and Judging: Selected Papers of Murray Gleeson. He is now working on a PhD concerning the NSW coronial system.