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Nicholas Cowdery

Nicholas Cowdery AM QC has been the Director of Public Prosecutions for the State of New South Wales, Australia since 1994. Before that he was a barrister in private practice for 19 years and a public defender in Papua New Guinea for 4 ½ years after graduation from the University of Sydney (BA, LLB) in 1971. He has been an Acting Judge of the District Court of New South Wales. He is Immediate Past President of the International Association of Prosecutors. He was inaugural Co-Chair of the IBA's Human Rights Institute from 1995-2000. In 2003 he was appointed a Member in the Order of Australia for services to the practice and development of criminal law and to fostering international relations in the area of human rights. He is the author of Getting Justice Wrong: Myths, Media and Crime (Allen & Unwin, 2001).