Sir John Musgrave Harvey (22 December 1865 – 13 June 1940) was an Australian judge who served on the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1913 to 1936.
[2] From 1890 to 1893, Harvey was an associate to William Owen, the Chief Judge in Equity on the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
He authored a number of important texts on the subject, including Service of Equitable Process (1898) and The Practice in Equity (1902; co-authored with George Rich).
In June 1933, Chief Justice Philip Street took a leave of absence pending his official retirement in January 1934.
[2] In 1918, Harvey chaired a state Royal Commission into the law of property, with the aim of simplifying the practice of conveyancing.
In the latter, he found that a bribe had been paid to the acting general manager of the Electricity Department, but that the company's tender should nonetheless still be accepted as it was the best bid available.
He was a warden of St Mark's Church, Darling Point, for 28 years, and from 1934 to 1938 was chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.