Gail Archer

The Honourable Justice Gail Archer was appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia on 29 May 2017.

Justice Archer is a former state prosecutor, principal counsel of Legal Aid WA, and acting commissioner of the Western Australian Corruption and Crime Commission.

She joined the Bar in 2004 and was appointed a senior counsel in 2007. That same year, Justice Archer was chosen to conduct a statutory review of the Corruption and Crime Commission Act 2003 (WA).

Justice Archer has a keen interest in forensic advocacy and, in 2011, was selected by the Australian Bar Association to be a coach in an advanced advocacy course at Keble College in Oxford. In 2015, she was a coach in an advocacy course conducted in Singapore by the Singapore Law Society. She is also a regular coach in the Australian Bar Association’s advanced advocacy residential course.