Sir Julian Emanuel Salomons (formerly Solomons) (4 November 1835 – 6 April 1909) was a barrister, royal commissioner, Solicitor General, Chief Justice and member of parliament.

However, his passion for work probably led to a decline in his health and he made frequent trips to Europe to recover from these bouts.

Rather bullishly, Salomons after winning the appeal went further to argue that the judge could not retract his judgment in law.

[5] The Governor of New South Wales commuted Bertrand's sentence to imprisonment for life, serving 28 years.

On 16 August 1881 he was appointed a royal commissioner to inquire into the affairs of the Milburn Creek Copper Mining Co Ltd. Salomons reported on 3 November 1881 that 'there was an appropriation by the trustees themselves, not only without the consent or knowledge of their co-shareholders, but under circumstances of concealment and false statement, evidencing a consciousness on their part, that such appropriation was unauthorised and unjustifiable'.

When Chief Justice Sir James Martin died, the position was first offered to William Bede Dalley and then Frederick Matthew Darley.

Biographer Percival Serle states that Salomons's response to criticism was that his "appointment appears to be so wholly unjustifiable [to Justice William Windeyer ] as to have led to the utterance by him of such expressions and opinions … as to make any intercourse in the future between him and me quite impossible".

[2] He was appointed a second time as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council on 7 March 1887, holding office for over 11 years until 20 February 1899.

The Federation Bill was an important issue in the history of the colony of New South Wales as it led to the birth of the nation of Australia.

He endowed a local public school on the basis that religion was taught as a subject and was upset when it was not.

In an address on Australian Federation, he said that having an "education without religion is like putting a sword into the hands of a savage".

[18] Salomons was the Agent-General for New South Wales at London between 1899 and April 1900, returning to Sydney the following month.

He was also a Trustee of Art Gallery of New South Wales and a member of Barristers Admission Board.

[12] He died after a short illness on 6 April 1909 of a cerebral haemorrhage in his own home "Sherbourne" in Woollahra, Sydney.