Ian Temby QC AO
CDPP Director 1984 - 1988
Commissioner, Royal Commission into the Finance Broking Industry 2001 - 2002
Foundation Commissioner of ICAC (NSW) 1989 - 1994
Commissioner, WA Legal Aid Commission 1978 - 1981
Awarded Officer in the Order of Australia in 2004 (AO).
Ian Douglas Temby QC was admitted to legal practice on 23 December 1966 and joined Perth law firm Northmore Hale Davey and Leake.
In 1972, Mr Temby co-founded the Legal Advice Bureau.
He went to the Bar in Perth in 1978 and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel on 16 July 1980.
Mr Temby is a past President of the Law Society of WA, and of the Law Council of Australia, the peak national body for lawyers. He was appointed the first Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in 1984.
In 1989 he was appointed the first Commissioner of NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and held the position until 1994.
He resumed private practice in Sydney later that year.