Walter Sofronoff KC

Since his retirement as President of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Queensland in May 2022, Mr Sofronoff KC has returned to practice in the fields of mediation, arbitration, and advisory work.

Mr Sofronoff is Co-Chair of the Forensic Science Queensland Interim Advisory Board, a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile and Chair of the Supercars Court of Appeal in Australia. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia.

In 2017, Mr Sofronoff was appointed President of the Queensland Court of Appeal. After his retirement as a judge in 2022, Mr Sofronoff led the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Queensland. He chaired the Board of Inquiry into the Criminal Justice System in the Australian Capital Territory in 2023.

From 2005 to 2014 Mr Sofronoff served as the Solicitor-General for Queensland. In 2015 he was appointed Commissioner of the Grantham Floods Commission of Inquiry and in 2016 he led a review of the parole system in Queensland.

As a barrister, Mr Sofronoff had a broad practice which included commercial disputes, criminal law, constitutional law and public law.