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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Christopher David Steytler
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of Australia|AO]] [[Queen's Counsel|QC]]
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| office = Judge of the [[Supreme Court of Western Australia]]
| term_start = 4 October 1994
| term_end = 31 January 2009<ref name="transcript-farewell">{{cite web|title=Farewell to the Honourable Justice Steytler, President of the Court of Appeal (transcript)|publisher=[[Supreme Court of Western Australia]]|url=https://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/_files/SteytlerPFarewellTranscript_30012009.pdf|date=30 January 2009}}</ref>
| office2 = President of the Court of Appeal
| term_start2 = 1 February 2005
| term_end2 = 31 January 2009{{r|transcript-farewell}}
| predecessor2 = Inaugural
| successor2 = [[Carmel McLure]]
| office3 = Parliamentary Inspector of the [[Corruption and Crime Commission]]
| term_start3 = 1 February 2009
| term_end3 = 30 June 2012<ref name="hansard-inspector-retirement">{{cite hansard|jurisdiction=Western Australia|title=The intention of the Parliamentary Inspector of the Corruption and Crime Commission to retire|url=https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard%5Chansard.nsf/0/531a52edceeb8edc48257a1e002a2a48/$FILE/C38%20S1%2020120613%20p3527g-3529a.pdf|house=[[Western Australian Legislative Council|Legislative Council]]|date=13 June 2012}}</ref>
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| birth_place = South Africa
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| alma_mater = [[University of Cape Town]]<ref name="qc-appointment">{{cite web|publisher=[[Attorney General of Western Australia]]|title=Appointment of four new Queen's Counsel|date=21 January 1992|url=https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Lawrence/1992/01/Appointment-of-four-new-Queen%27s-Counsel.aspx|access-date=28 May 2016|archive-date=5 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305002703/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Lawrence/1992/01/Appointment-of-four-new-Queen%27s-Counsel.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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'''Christopher David Steytler''' is a former [[judge]] of the [[Supreme Court of Western Australia]] and [[Supreme Court of Western Australia#President of the Court of Appeal|President of the Court of Appeal]]. He was a member of the Supreme Court from 1994 to 2009 and was the Parliamentary Inspector of the [[Corruption and Crime Commission]] from 2009 to 2012.

Steytler was born in South Africa, doing his early years of schooling at [[St. George's Grammar School (Cape Town)|St George's Grammar School]] before graduating from the [[University of Cape Town]] and practising as a [[barrister]] and [[solicitor]] in South Africa prior to emigrating to [[Western Australia]] in 1976.{{r|transcript-farewell}} He joined the independent bar in 1990, and was appointed [[Queen's Counsel]] in January 1993.{{r|qc-appointment}} He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1994.

On 1 February 2009, following his retirement from the Supreme Court, he commenced as the Parliamentary Inspector of the Western Australian Corruption and Crime Commission.<ref name="watoday-inspector-appointment">{{cite news|url=https://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/retiring-judge-appointed-as-ccc-watchdog-20090129-7seu.html|title=Retiring judge appointed as CCC watchdog|date=29 January 2009|newspaper=WA Today}}</ref> He was an inaugural member of the Independent Media Council from 2012 to 2015.<ref name="imc-inaugural">{{cite web|title=The Independent Media Council Guidelines|publisher=Independent Media Council|url=http://www.independentmediacouncil.com.au/about.html}}</ref>

On 11 June 2012, he was named an Officer of the [[Order of Australia]] for distinguished service to the judiciary and to the law, to the advancement and protection of human rights, to legal education, and to professional ethics and standards.<ref>{{cite web|title=Search Australian Honours|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1145780|publisher=[[Australian Government]]}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Judiciary of Australia]]

==References==
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