Jeffrey William Shaw, QC (10 October 1949 – 11 May 2010)[1] was an Australian lawyer, judge and former Attorney General of New South Wales.
[citation needed] With others such as Joan Evatt, Wayne Haylen, Peter Crawford, Laurie Ferguson, and Pam Allan he successfully organised the unprecedented left takeover in NSW Young Labor in 1973–74, becoming Senior Vice President.
During this period he was an official of the Public Service Association of NSW and later a solicitor with labor law firm Taylor & Scott.
[citation needed] Shaw was a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Eastwood in the 1981 NSW election.
[2] Shaw was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the New South Wales Legislative Council in May 1990, representing the Labor Party.
Upon the election of the ALP to government in March 1995, Shaw became Attorney General and Minister for Industrial Relations, positions he held until 2000.
[citation needed] Under pressure from the Opposition Liberal Party, the Police Integrity Commission initiated an inquiry into the circumstances of the sample's disappearance.