Jean Hazel Dalton (born 3 December 1964) is justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland in the Trial Division.
[2] Dalton commenced her legal career as an associate to Supreme Court Justice Desmond Derrington, before becoming a clerk at Morris Fletcher & Cross.
She was admitted to the bar in 1989 and had a diverse practice, covering medical negligence, commercial and corporate law.
[3] Dalton has been the trial judge in a diverse range of cases, from refusing bail for a man accused of domestic violence while awaiting trial for other allegations of domestic violence,[5] to a commercial dispute where the administrator was removed for preferring its own commercial interests to that of the fund.
[8][9] While appointed to the Trial Division, Dalton has also sat in the Court of Appeal, delivering the leading judgment in a personal injury case, finding that the judgment of the District Court was illogical and unreasonable to reject the evidence of the plaintiff.