Vale The Honourable Richard Tracey AM RFD QC (1948-2019)

We note with great sadness the death of Richard Tracey AM RFD QC, on the 11^th of October 2019. Mr Tracey passed away after a brief battle with cancer. He was at the time of his death, Commissioner on the current federal royal commission into aged care. Mr Tracey has a long and distinguished career in the law and public law. He was appointed a Queens Counsel in 1991 and was a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia from 2006-2018. Mr Tracey also held a singular expertise in military law, by reason of his service in the Australian Army from 1975-2014 during which he reached the rank of Major-General. He served these and other roles with great distinction. Mr Tracey is well known to us at Thomson Reuters, and remembered with respect and affection, for his role as editor of the Australian Journal of Administrative Law. This journal would not exist without Mr Tracey. He was its inaugural editor and served as general editor of the journal for its first 13 years – from 1994 until 2005. Our deepest sympathies go to Mr Tracey’s wife, Hilary, and their children Jack, Philip, Fiona and Rosie.