Marcus Richard Einfeld was born on 22 September 1938 and is an Australian former judge of the Federal Court of Australia and was the inaugural president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
55 Facts About Marcus Einfeld
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Marcus Einfeld was convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice and served two years in prison.
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Marcus Einfeld was called to the bar in 1962, and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1977.
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From 1972 to 1976, Einfeld was a director of the World Jewish Congress, based in London.
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Marcus Einfeld was appointed to the Federal Court in 1986, serving until 2001.
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Marcus Einfeld was the inaugural president of the Australian Paralympic Committee from 1990 to 1992.
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Marcus Einfeld appealed the ticket, claiming that he had not been driving.
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Marcus Einfeld was arrested in 2007, and the following year pleaded guilty to perjury and perverting the course of justice.
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Marcus Einfeld was born in Sydney, and was named after his paternal grandfather who had died a year earlier.
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Marcus Einfeld's parents were the Labor Party politician Syd Einfeld and his wife Billie Einfeld, who married in June 1934.
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Marcus Einfeld's father served in both Federal Parliament and the Parliament of New South Wales.
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Marcus Einfeld attended Sydney Boys High School from 1951 to 1955.
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Marcus Einfeld then obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney in 1962.
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At some point, Marcus Einfeld began claiming that he held doctorates from both "Century University" and "Pacific Western University"; both are US-based diploma mills without any accreditation as law schools.
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Those qualifications were referred to by Attorney-General Lionel Bowen when Marcus Einfeld was added to the Federal Court in 1987, and were listed in his Who's Who in Australia entry until 2007.
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Marcus Einfeld has four children, two from each of two marriages.
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Marcus Einfeld married his first wife Yetta, a teacher, in 1963 and that had two children before they divorced in 1977.
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Marcus Einfeld married his second wife Anne, an attorney, in 1982 and they had two children before they divorced in 1996.
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Marcus Einfeld was in a long-term relationship with Sylvia Eisman.
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Marcus Einfeld was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1977, aged 39.
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Marcus Einfeld represented High Court Justice Lionel Murphy in his legal challenge to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry which had been established to examine whether Murphy had perverted the course of justice; the inquiry was suspended when Murphy became terminally ill.
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Marcus Einfeld was an additional Justice of the Australian Capital Territory.
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Marcus Einfeld was the founding president of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
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Marcus Einfeld was appointed to a seven-year term in December 1986, but resigned after three years citing an inability to combine the role with his judicial duties.
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Marcus Einfeld has served as Austcare's "Ambassador for Refugees", and as a UNICEF "Ambassador for Children".
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Marcus Einfeld has served as National Vice President of the International Commission of Jurists.
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Marcus Einfeld served as Chairman of Legal Resources International Inc.
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Marcus Einfeld was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to international affairs and the protection of human rights in 1998.
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Marcus Einfeld was the inaugural President of the Australian Paralympic Federation.
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Marcus Einfeld has served as an executive member of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and as a Councillor on the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
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Marcus Einfeld started and served as the first chairman of the Australian Campaign for the Rescue of Soviet Jewry, following his earlier establishment of the London-based National Campaign for Soviet Jewry of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Marcus Einfeld has been a spokesperson for Israeli and Jewish causes, and has contributed to public debate on Palestine, the media, the United Nations, universities, and other institutions.
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Marcus Einfeld was an invited speaker at United Israel Appeal functions in Britain, the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia.
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Marcus Einfeld is patron of the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants and of the Sydney Jewish Museum.
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Marcus Einfeld was the President of Australian Legal Resources International, a non-profit independent group of lawyers that supported democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in developing countries.
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On 7 August 2006, Marcus Einfeld contested a A$77 speeding ticket.
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Marcus Einfeld contested the ticket in Downing Centre Local Court by claiming he had on that day lent his car to an old friend, Professor Teresa Brennan, who was visiting from the United States.
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When challenged by the journalist concerning Brennan's death, Marcus Einfeld claimed that he had lent his car on that day to a different Terese or Therese Brennan, who he claimed lived in the US, and who had died after returning to the US.
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On 10 August 2006 a police investigation commenced into whether Marcus Einfeld had committed perjury in giving his evidence.
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On 23 August 2006, Marcus Einfeld produced a detailed 20-page statement describing the fictitious second Teresa Brennan and his supposed dealings with her.
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On 29 March 2007, Marcus Einfeld was arrested by the New South Wales Police.
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Marcus Einfeld was initially charged by the Director of Public Prosecutions with 13 offences, including perjury, perverting the course of justice, and making and using false statutory declarations.
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However, Marcus Einfeld denied he was aware his points were so high.
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Marcus Einfeld was committed to stand trial on charges of perjury, perverting the course of justice, and traffic offences.
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On 19 October 2008 the Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed another five of the charges against Marcus Einfeld, leaving only two.
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The pre-sentence report to the court stated that Marcus Einfeld accepted responsibility for his actions.
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On 20 March 2009, the 70-year-old retired judge Marcus Einfeld was sentenced to the maximum three years in prison for knowingly making a false statement under oath and for attempting to pervert the course of justice, with a non-parole period of two years.
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Supreme Court Justice Bruce James found Marcus Einfeld had committed "deliberate, premeditated perjury" that was "part of planned criminal activity".
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Marcus Einfeld served two years, and was released on parole on 19 March 2011.
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Shortly after Marcus Einfeld was sentenced, Stephen Linnell, one of the top advisers to Victoria police commissioner Christine Nixon, pleaded guilty to three counts of perjury and disclosing confidential information of the Office of Police Integrity.
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Marcus Einfeld received an eight-month suspended sentence and a $5,000 fine.
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On 23 July 2009, the New South Wales Court of Appeal ordered that Marcus Einfeld's name be struck out from the roll of lawyers.
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On 28 August 2009, the Court of Appeal delivered its reasons for making those declarations and orders, finding proven allegations that, in addition to the 2006 statutory declaration in respect of which he had been convicted, Marcus Einfeld had sworn a series of statutory declarations in 1999,2003, and 2004 falsely nominating other persons as the drivers of his car who he knew had not been driving the car so as to avoid traffic infringements.
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The court considered the circumstances in which Marcus Einfeld had produced the 20-page statement describing the fictitious Teresa Brennan, and found that:.
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In 2011, Marcus Einfeld was devoting his time to community works, including working on Australian prison reform.